Commentary - America's Future

By AF Editors • Sep 19,2008

UN-accountable

It’s widely acknowledged that the United Nations is not perfect. From the oil-for-food debacle to the pending Security Council membership of Libya in 2009, there are a few idiosyncracies (!)...

By AF Editors • Sep 19,2008

UNDP audit of DPRK

As referenced earlier, the UN’s internal audit of the UN Development Program’s operations in North Korea revealed some serious cracks in the system. Now it’s one thing to run an...

By Sonny Bunch • Sep 19,2008

Free speech and the left

Back at my old AF joint, I had a running series of posts on instances of left-wing types failing to live up to the ideal of free speech: namely, an...

By AF Editors • Sep 18,2008

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed

As someone who believes that our policy toward Russia since the end of the Cold War constitutes one of our more egregious foreign policy missteps in recent years, articles like...

By Daniel Kennelly • Sep 18,2008

Got Chinese milk?

The scope of the tainted milk scandal seems to be expanding daily: Milk tainted with melamine, a compound banned in food, has killed three other babies, two in China’s northwestern...

By Sonny Bunch • Sep 18,2008

Divided Government

At the AF roundtable last night, I argued less for John McCain than against Barack Obama, mainly on the idea that with an energized Democratic Senate and House (combined with...