Commentary - America's Future

By Crystal Ramos • Sep 10,2008

Don't I Get a Phone Call?

KHOMEINI-SHAHR, OUTSIDE ISFAHAN, IRAN—Leave it to strict religious conservatives to make Iran’s biggest western supporters reconsider. On a trip to the infamous Islamic Republic last month, I found myself in...

By Crystal Ramos • Sep 10,2008

Don’t I Get a Phone Call?

By David Donadio • Sep 09,2008

Selling long-term solutions in a short-term town

Husain Haqqani, now ambassador of Pakistan to the United States, gave a good talk Friday at the Carnegie Endowment (full disclosure: my day job), where he was previously a fellow....

By AF Editors • Sep 09,2008

It's a mystery

Just rewatched Ratatouille tonight. It’s still a delightful film, but one thing nagged me throughout: how did those hyper-intelligent rats make their way to France in the first place?

By Damir Marusic • Sep 09,2008

The Inevitability of Great Power Conflict

Ezra Klein (via Monsieur Poulos) reads an interview with McCain foreign policy guru Randy Scheunemann and rightly gets scared. I take issue with part of his great power conflict analysis,...

By Sonny Bunch • Sep 09,2008

Voting against Obama is racist

I thought that was where this column by Sophia Nelson was headed, especially after reading this paragraph: Many black Americans are holding their collective breath, hoping that the most stubborn...