Commentary - America's Future

By David Donadio • Feb 12,2009

Dead Russian satellite collides with live American one

It had to happen sooner or later. A deactivated Russian satellite collided with a U.S. communications satellite over Siberia on February 10. William Broad of the Times and Seth Borenstein...

By David Adesnik • Feb 12,2009

Progressive Republicans

Seriously. I guess ‘progressive conservative’ might be something of a contradiction, although American conservatism, with its emphasis on individual freedom and free markets, could actually be described as progressive. (Hat...

By David Donadio • Feb 12,2009

Bashar al-Assad’s stock value goes up

Michael Young writes that the Gaza war and the Israeli electoral deadlock have driven up Bashar al-Assad’s stock value. Young’s analysis of the Israeli election isn’t as good as Noah...

By David Polansky • Feb 12,2009

Why are we in Afghanistan? (with apologies to Norman Mailer)

Damir has a generous post in which hedges some his disagreement with Christian Brose regarding the scale of our presence in Afghanistan. It stands in contrast to Andrew Sullivan’s post...

By David Donadio • Feb 12,2009

“Buy American” is no hit in Korea

My one-time colleague Joe Sternberg has the goods on U.S. trade policy from the other end.

By David Polansky • Feb 12,2009

Israeli elections

For those wondering what the results may mean, Noah Millman has the breakdown.