Commentary - America's Future

By David Donadio • Oct 30,2008

The joy of bad transliterations

Kalsoom Lakhani has written up the terrible earthquake in Baluchistan. It’s no laughing matter, of course, but I reluctantly confess, this part had me laughing: Today, yet another tragedy has...

By Daniel Kennelly • Oct 30,2008

Lessons Learned (or, Better Late than Never)

Ta-nehisi Coates has figured it out: No one has conspired to deprive us of power over the past few decades. The American people aren’t stupid. We’ve sucked at articulating our...

By David Donadio • Oct 30,2008

And for our website, All The News That’s Not Fit To Print

The Times’ site is now fronting a story on supernatural cleaning methods. It’s probably an interesting read, but who has the time to find out?

By Sonny Bunch • Oct 30,2008

The Wishful Thinking school of foreign policy

Yes, there is a difference between imperfect cooperation and no cooperation at all. See: Saudi Arabia. The problem with your argument is that, at this point in time, THERE IS...

By David Donadio • Oct 30,2008

The Travis Bickle school of foreign policy

So once again, in Sonny’s view, there’s no difference between imperfect cooperation and no cooperation at all. Some might say we should think a few steps ahead before shaving our...

By Sonny Bunch • Oct 30,2008

The Obama Infomercial

I’m just curious: Did anyone actually watch the Obama infomercial? I did because the good folks at Culture11 asked me to participate in a symposium about its impact. You can...