Commentary - America's Future

By Sonny Bunch • Nov 05,2008

Michael Crichton

Michael Crichton has died, after a lengthy (and private) battle with cancer. This makes me quite sad: I stumbled onto Crichton’s work in middle school and found it most entertaining....

By David Donadio • Nov 05,2008

How to lose friends and get influenced

My colleague Amr Hamzawy has a partial post-mortem on Bush administration Middle East policy in Al-Ahram: After two Bush administrations, which sought to redraw the map of the Middle East...

By Daniel Kennelly • Nov 05,2008

For all you fans of The Wire

This.

By David Donadio • Nov 05,2008

Bob Ray Sanders on Obama's victory

Bob Ray Sanders has one worth reading in today’s Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

By David Donadio • Nov 05,2008

Both McCain and Obama campaign computers appear to have been hacked by foreign powers

Here we are thinking, ah, sweet relief, the election is over, and then something like this comes out: The computer systems of both the Obama and McCain campaigns were victims...

By Daniel Kennelly • Nov 05,2008

Prop 8 and the need to go beyond 50.1%

Andrew Sullivan says he is “not shattered” by the passage of California’s Proposition 8, the ballot measure effectively overturning the state Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of gay marriage, but...