Commentary - America's Future

By David Donadio • Oct 10,2008

Powell endorses Obama

Where was this Colin Powell in February 2003? First things first: on foreign policy, and the message an Obama presidency would send about what an extraordinary and resilient country the...

By Damir Marusic • Oct 10,2008

An Honorable Man Wakes Up

Good on McCain, tamping down the misinformed excesses of the base base.

By David Polansky • Oct 10,2008

They come not to praise the republic, but to bury it

Over the course of two presidential debates, our candidates have largely failed to distinguish themselves from one another in the realm of foreign policy, confirming my long-held suspicion that, when...

By David Donadio • Oct 10,2008

Chris Buckley endorses Obama

In a Daily Beast column much worth reading, Buckley fils endorses Barack Obama for president. (Wow, he bears a frightening resemblance to his father, doesn’t he?) The column isn’t very...

By Sonny Bunch • Oct 10,2008

The “myth” of voter fraud

Voter fraud is a myth, designed to disenfranchise the poor. Right Dahlia? Right Matt? Right Nico? Oh, wait: The secretary of state’s office launched an investigation after noticing that names...

By David Donadio • Oct 10,2008

So does this make Jeremiah Wright Ras the Exhorter?

Some time ago, I toyed with the notion of writing an article contrasting Barack Obama with the nameless protagonist of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. I nixed the idea, out of...