Commentary - America's Future

By AF Editors • Oct 23,2008

A Scuttled Shuttle

As it stands now, NASA will retire the remaining Space Shuttles—Discovery, Endeavour and Atlantis—sometime in 2010 in order to make way for the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) and a...

By AF Editors • Oct 23,2008

Your morning YTMND

America needs a hero.

By Daniel Kennelly • Oct 23,2008

MMO Watch

A new massively multiplayer strategy game, eRepublik, targets gamers who no longer have the massive amounts of time to invest (I use the term loosely) in a game but want...

By AF Editors • Oct 23,2008

If you elect us, I promise you all hell will break loose

Biden makes one of the stranger cases for a presidential candidate in recent memory: It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John...

By AF Editors • Oct 23,2008

Frankly, they'll take whatever they can get

I like Daniel Larison’s comparison of the present-day Republican party to the Tories since Tony Blair’s first victory, because they seem similarly out of touch with what’s going on in...

By David Donadio • Oct 22,2008

Robert Samuelson, how do I love thee?

Thank you. Quoth Samuelson: To: Voters Under 35 Subject: Your Future Recommendation: Get Angry You’re being played for chumps. Barack Obama and John McCain want your votes, but they’re ignoring...