Commentary - America's Future

By Kelly Jane Torrance • Mar 21,2005

Recycling is garbage

I’ve always been told that art and politics don’t mix. But I’m starting to question this conventional wisdom. Sometimes politics could use more beauty and subtlety. And sometimes art could...

By James N. Markels • Mar 20,2005

Could you pull the plug?

“If I ever get like that, I don’t want to be kept alive. I want you to pull the plug.” My mother has told me that on more than one...

By Emily Helgersen • Mar 13,2005

Italians for The Sopranos

The Sopranos are after me. Or so it seemed in the summer of 2000, because everywhere I turned they were there. My neighborhood in Toronto, Canada was literally plastered with...

By David Freddoso • Mar 13,2005

Raise the minimum IQ, while you’re at it

Another year, another attempt to raise the federal minimum wage. Back in late 2003, San Franciscans voted in a referendum to make low-skilled labor cost $8.50 per hour — far...

By Tim Lee • Mar 13,2005

Dreaming of DRM

Digital rights management technologies may yet prove an effective piracy deterrent, and companies should be free to deploy them. But requiring customers to comply with them on pain of criminal...

By J.P. Maloney Jr. • Mar 06,2005

A savage literary journey meets its end

Hunter S. Thompson, the journalist and author whose acerbic wit and idiosyncratic prose colored the late 1960s and early 1970s, is dead at 67. He took his own life by...