Commentary - America's Future

By David Donadio • Dec 04,2008

Hanging Saakashvili by the balls

I don’t know how I missed this (by way of this): “I am going to hang Saakashvili by the balls,” Mr Putin declared. Mr Sarkozy thought he had misheard. “Hang...

By AF Editors • Dec 04,2008

The Value of Neoconservatism

There seems to be no dirtier word in the English lexicon today than “neocon”. Almost everyone has a strong opinion about the ideology, and yet very few have a clear...

By David Donadio • Dec 04,2008

10 questions for Vladimir Putin

Foreign Policy has 10 questions for Vladimir Putin. These are exactly the questions you’d want him to answer, and 7 and 10 are good for a laugh.

By Sonny Bunch • Dec 04,2008

Prosecutorial overreach

Emily Bazelon has a great piece up at Slate tracking the (absurd) prosecution and (equally absurd) conviction of Lori Drew, the adult MySpace bully who drove a teen girl to...

By David Donadio • Dec 04,2008

Just imagine what’ll happen when the media gets started on the Clintons again

Rahm Emanuel isn’t even in the White House yet, and already the New York Times is starting to work him over. Get ready for a lot more conflict of interest...

By David Donadio • Dec 03,2008

Ideas still have consequences

My colleague Robert Kagan writes that the U.S. should create an international response to the attacks in Mumbai, which sounds harmless enough, until you get to the actual proposal: Rather...