Commentary - America's Future

By Daniel Kennelly • Dec 09,2008

The cardinal sin of a pop-culture commentator

I’ve said elsewhere that “the cardinal sin of the cultural commentator is to take one’s private loves and preferences and try to read some sort of deeper cultural significance into...

By David Donadio • Dec 09,2008

Why didn’t Blagojevich crash and burn earlier?

Michael Calderone writes that among other things, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich tried to pressure the Chicago Tribune to fire deputy editorial page editor John P. McCormick. Of course, the market...

By David Donadio • Dec 08,2008

Most expensive Tweeter in the solar system

NASA’s Mars lander, twittering up a storm.

By Sonny Bunch • Dec 08,2008

Get that man a blog!

Patrick Appel (a key member of Andrew Sullivan’s one man blog) absolutely destroys his boss’s preoccupation with the the “fake Sarah Palin pregnancy” nonsense. Give it a read if you...

By David Donadio • Dec 08,2008

Bill Kristol, self-loving liberal

The great irony is that for as much as liberal Manhattanites curse Bill Kristol as they read his column over their lattes at Starbucks, he isn’t conservative in any sense...

By AF Editors • Dec 08,2008

No Longer a Forgotten Continent

With wars, famines, plagues and even pirates besetting Africa, the continent desperately needs the world’s help. Although it hasn’t gotten much attention—or praise—for its efforts, the U.S. has been providing...