By Hance Haney • Sep 18,2006

The games bureaucrats play

When a bureaucrat makes a comment that defies logic, like the following, it may mean something’s up: It is misleading to imply that the commission could be the cause of...

By AF Editors • Sep 11,2006

An inconvenient enemy of the people

The opening shot in a much anticipated Presidential contest might just have been fired in the strangest of places: Washington’s Shakespeare Theatre Company. The company is currently running a production...

By Michael Brendan Dougherty • Sep 11,2006

Dear maniacal rubes

Religious faith holds a certain honor in American society. Institutions deemed religious are exempt from taxation. Discrimination based on religious affiliation is prohibited. Long held statutes do not oblige priests...

By AF Editors • Sep 04,2006

The age of classic TV

The elevated, novelistic trend we're currently seeing in television -- and first seen in shows like Homicide -- combined with the increasing popularity of DVD box sets, suggests that television...

By AF Editors • Sep 04,2006

Hamilton vs. Carney

Often the problem isn't that Congress and Big Business have gotten cozy; in many cases they don't seem to have gotten cozy enough.