Commentary - America's Future

By David Adesnik • Feb 10,2009

Obama live!

The President held his first live news conference last night. I thought it was very interesting how Obama kept attacking the same strawman, an alleged group of Republicans that would...

By AF Editors • Feb 10,2009

Markets fall as massive stimulus moves forward

So reports the AP on creeping inflation: SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Oil prices fell alongside the broader markets Tuesday after the Obama administration announced a program that could raise more...

By David Donadio • Feb 09,2009

What do you do if you lost money to Madoff?

Brendan Conway has a good read on recourses for victims of Bernie Madoff’s ponzi scheme.

By David Polansky • Feb 09,2009

Your daily dose of poverty porn

The International Herald Tribune provides one of the best examples I’ve seen yet of the burgeoning genre of poverty porn, with this glimpse of life in Katmandu: For all of...

By David Polansky • Feb 09,2009

In honor of Reagan week, meet the new John Hinckley, Jr.

Once again puttings its unrivaled journalistic resources to excellent use, the New York Times offers a terrifying glimpse into the loneliness and paranoia of the obsessive psychopath: The other night...

By David Donadio • Feb 09,2009

This is why you’re fat

Wow.