Commentary - America's Future

By Daniel Kennelly • Feb 06,2009

Is This a Recantation?

Andrew Sullivan: …[I]t is important to note up-front when McCarthyite slurs of bigotry are spread around like so much confetti. It cheapens them. Indeed it does.

By James Poulos • Feb 06,2009

Reality Check: Reagan’s Legacy is Our Own

There is something in the nature of democracy that opposes us to the task of electing the best man in America. We much prefer the opportunity to vote for the...

By Sonny Bunch • Feb 06,2009

Greatest. Idea. EVER. (Updated with even more great ideas!)

Why did it take someone in DC this many years to combine booze, food, and indoor putt-putt? Now if only there was a way to get to H Street that...

By David Donadio • Feb 06,2009

What if Tom Friedman and Peggy Noonan had a kid?

He’d drop hundreds of hopelessly mixed metaphors, all while writing to readers as though they were children. And they’d take at least half their column length to come to a...

By David Donadio • Feb 06,2009

Go stimulate yourselves

Oddly enough, the government seems not to be making money on the federal bailout, wherein it spent several hundred billion dollars of our money to buy stuff we wouldn’t have:...

By David Donadio • Feb 05,2009

Big Brother Is Watching

Like so many Google products, Latitude is exciting, and ever so slightly terrifying. If nothing else, it’d make a pretty cool evil surprise for anyone who stole your iPhone or...