Commentary - America's Future

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.

By Lea Oksman • Aug 14,2005

Educational mobility

An Economist opinion editorial from July 14th (“The Missing Rung In The Ladder”) lamented the decrease in social mobility in the United States, and suggests that the solution is for...