Commentary - America's Future

By Sonny Bunch • Jun 17,2008

What's going on at Gitmo?

When people protest detainee treatment at Guantanamo Bay, I assume they all have visions of Abu Ghraib dancing in their heads: beatings, torture, mock executions, constant humiliation, etc. That’s simply...

By Sonny Bunch • Jun 17,2008

Poverty and crime, cont.

I want to follow up on that Hanna Rosin piece I’ve been touting for the last couple of weeks with two very disheartening stories, both of which reveal the deeper...

By Michael Brendan Dougherty • Jun 17,2008

Hope Does Not Spring Eternal

It should have been cold out. It was December, in Columbia, South Carolina, the home of the game cocks, and I stood there, waiting for Barack Obama to speak. He’d...

By Sonny Bunch • Jun 16,2008

A progressive book club?

It’s easy to make jokes about the publishing industry being full of liberals, or churning out books about liberals for liberals. I think the bigger problem is probably region bias....

By Sonny Bunch • Jun 16,2008

Meet the Press

Over at the Weekly Standard‘s blog, I write up the four big Sunday morning talk shows each weekend. It’s not exhaustive, typically not too much more than brief summaries of...

By James Poulos • Jun 16,2008

Phony Multivocality as Real Cowardice

I´m a little late to Julian´s also-belated take on the German paper that ran a headline about the White House as “Uncle Barack´s Cabin,” but one element of the story...