Commentary - America's Future

By Sonny Bunch • Jul 14,2008

Who you know

Via Peter and Matt, I see that there is some discussion over hiring practices. Says Freddie: The last couple of years have seen my friends begin to start their honest-to-goodness...

By Sonny Bunch • Jul 14,2008

Biking as culture, cont.

So, you might remember me condemning bikers, pedestrians, and car drivers equally for their poor road skills last week; if you read the comments, you might get the sense that...

By James Poulos • Jul 14,2008

I Feel My Pain: Bill Clinton Enjoys Another Fatuous Vision

Here’s what worries him: He cited statistics compiled by Bishop that found that in the 1976 presidential election, only 20 percent of the nation’s counties voted for Jimmy Carter or...

By James Poulos • Jul 14,2008

Mushball Polls, Mushball Candidates?

At the Plank, Nate Silver draws our attention to those gap-closing Presidential polls. Bad news for Obama? Well it ain’t good news. But the natural question to ask here is...

By James Poulos • Jul 12,2008

Luck and Pluck

Americans may not be at ease reflecting together on the uncanny power of the United States to emerge more or less unscathed from its stupid mistakes. The Iraq war itself...

By Sonny Bunch • Jul 11,2008

Del Toro overpraise, cont.

Dana Stevens: But over the course of two Hellboy movies (based on the comic by Mike Mignola), Mexican director Guillermo del Toro has started to look like a legitimate successor...