Commentary - America's Future

By Sonny Bunch • Nov 25,2008

We’d only get 12 f***ing people on the plane

Ann Althouse points out that fat people must be given two seats for the price of one on airplanes. This, of course, made me think of Ricky Gervais’s brilliant take...

By AF Editors • Nov 25,2008

The Murder Bus Tales

The man sitting next to me is having a rough day. Bleary-eyed, shirt untucked, hair in mild disarray: He looks like life is moving faster than he’d like. Apparently, he...

By Sonny Bunch • Nov 25,2008

More on statelessness, Geneva, etc

In addition to the comments on my original post, there’s an interesting discussion brewing over at Upturned Earth; Matt Thompson dissents here and the comments are worth reading.

By Sonny Bunch • Nov 24,2008

Statelessness and Humanity

Over at John Schwenkler’s joint, J.L. Wall addresses the problem of the Geneva Conventions as they apply to enemy combatants. John and I went back and forth on this earlier...

By David Donadio • Nov 24,2008

Scowcroft and Brzezinski to Obama: put this dress on, and jump through these hoops

Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski advise Barack Obama to reinvigorate the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. I agree with their analysis, and in principle with their prescriptions, but what good does it...

By David Polansky • Nov 24,2008

Let’s just dust this one off, shall we?

Following up on Donadio’s post, that oped follows an all-too-common model: take a piece you or someone else (in this case, Brzezinski) has written a number of times before. Insert...