Commentary - America's Future

By David Donadio • Sep 16,2008

Dad, can I borrow $85 billion?

Over dinner, the U.S. government agreed to provide $85 billion to bail out AIG. What’s next? I shudder to think what’ll happen while we’re asleep.

By David Donadio • Sep 16,2008

Worth a look

Amity Shlaes on the Fannie and Freddie debacle in Bloomberg.

By Daniel Kennelly • Sep 16,2008

Obama the Dove?

Andrew Sullivan, responding to Christopher Hitchens’ claim that an Obama presidency will mean “more war, and more bitter and protracted war at that—not less”, says: I can face the idea...

By David Donadio • Sep 16,2008

This just keeps getting better and better

The only way this would make me madder is if I were an Iranian leader. I’d be out in the cold, while Pakistan created the Taliban, built and tested multiple...

By AF Editors • Sep 16,2008

But it worked for Rome! Sort of…

Andrew J. Bacevich has a characteristically smart piece in the new Atlantic Monthly on the largely internal debate over military tactics fought between what he terms the Crusaders and the...

By David Donadio • Sep 16,2008

OPM

Michael Lewitt writes in today’s New York Times that if A.I.G. collapses, life as we know it will come to an end. Money grafs: More promisingly, A.I.G. asked the Federal...