Commentary - America's Future

By AF Editors • Jan 15,2009

How dare they?

I see that Mr. Yglesias is outraged that some idiot DC suburbanites wouldn’t want a light rail importing “riffraff” into their neighborhoods. While I don’t know enough as to the...

By Damir Marusic • Jan 15,2009

One Way To Do It

Up on the main site, Marko Hoare argues for a tough-love approach to solving the the Israeli-Arab conflict: A possible model for the imposition of a fair compromise on Israel...

By AF Editors • Jan 15,2009

Ahh, Baltimore…

I’m a bit late on this one, but living in a city that right now defines large-scale political corruption in the national imagination (Chicago), I felt a twinge of nostalgia...

By AF Editors • Jan 15,2009

A Rambouillet for the Israel-Palestine Conflict

In deciding to comment on the conflict in Gaza, I’m reminded of the old joke from the time of the siege of Sarajevo, in which someone is alleged to have...

By Sonny Bunch • Jan 15,2009

Leon Panetta and extraordinary rendition

Writing about the choice of Leon Panetta for head of the CIA, Andrew Sullivan wrote in the Times of London that [t]he first name floated for CIA head was John...

By Daniel Kennelly • Jan 15,2009

Me? I'm All for Dumb Power

Chris Brose is bristling at Hillary Clinton’s invocation of “smart power” in her testimony the other day: Now, America needs many things right now, but another contribution to the foreign...