Commentary - America's Future

By Joanne McNeil • Sep 05,2005

You can’t fake it

Should something be done just because it’s never been done? It all depends on whether one’s priority is to be a pioneer or a great artist. Michael Winterbottom, one would...

By Sam Ryan • Aug 28,2005

The Postal Service’s eminently absurd powers

Much criticism of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on eminent domain has focused on the narrow circumstances of the case: The court has allowed the City of New London, Connecticut,...

By David Freddoso • Aug 28,2005

My vote was cancelled out by a baseball diamond

Last Wednesday, my roommate and I watched from the nosebleeds as the hapless Nationals beat up on his even more hapless Reds. Some time around the fifth inning, before the...

By Kelly Jane Torrance • Aug 21,2005

The perfect crime

Rafael Gonzalez is incredibly shallow, exceedingly cocky, and an inveterate womanizer–but he’s strangely sympathetic anyway. As played by Guillermo Toledo, who can tell a story in the raise of his...

By AF Editors • Aug 21,2005

Microsoft’s iPod patent?

Does Microsoft hold the patent on the iPod's click wheel even though Apple invented it?

By AF Editors • Aug 21,2005

It’s Specter time!

Assuming John Roberts is confirmed, Arlen Specter could very likely still shape the terms of debate in such a way as to make the next conservative nominee unconfirmable.