Commentary - America's Future

By AF Editors • Feb 16,2004

Dean of Candidates

However you measure it, Howard Dean’s ascent from bottom of the barrel in early 2003 to top of the heap by year’s end is an amazing story. Dean dealt himself...

By AF Editors • Feb 16,2004

Intellectual Property: The Yin and Yang of Copyright and Copyleft

If you have been watching TV or reading the news lately, you may have come to the conclusion that the open-source movement (which promotes collaborative, free-to-use software) has made a...

By Matthew Berry • Feb 16,2004

A Thousand Springsteens Bloom

In 1989, Walker Percy sent a letter to Bruce Springsteen. Percy was a not-exactly famous Southern Catholic writer. Springsteen was a rock megastar and cultural icon. Their correspondence, you can...

By Brendan Conway • Feb 16,2004

Washington’s Anonymous Architects

Before Phil Schneider came to Washington in the late 1960s and built a career collecting statistics on the federal government, American leaders hardly knew their own strength. That is to...

By Judah Pollack • Feb 16,2004

Notes From New Hampshire

A young man who roller-bladed cross-country last summer to protest the war in Iraq walked into the New Hampshire campaign headquarters of Dennis Kucinich carrying a small, soft briefcase. A...

By Chaim Karczag • Feb 16,2004

Fast Times at Wilde Lake Middle School

A review of Not Much Just Chillin’: The Secret Lives of Middle Schoolers by Linda Perlstein, 272 pages, $24.00, Farrar Straus & Giroux In Britney Spears’s America, we probably know...