Commentary - America's Future

By AF Editors • May 01,1999

Are We Ready? The Threat of Biochemical Terrorism

You have to be lucky all the time . . . We have to be lucky just once. -An international terrorist group Today’s headlines are filled with reports of megaton...

By AF Editors • Apr 01,1999

Trial Lawyers Take Aim

In the latest wave of mega-lawsuits, the cities of Chicago, New Orleans, Atlanta, Miami, and Bridgeport, among others, have filed lawsuits against firearm manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and trade associations because,...

By AF Editors • Mar 01,1999

Know Your Customer: George Bailey meets Uncle Sam

Recently proposed federal regulations-commonly referred to as “Know Your Customer” (KYC) rules-would require banks and other financial institutions to monitor every transaction conducted by each of their customers and report...

By AF Editors • Feb 01,1999

Foreign Aid Fallacies and Follies

The Clinton Administration is preparing to ask the new Congress to spend some $2.8 billion in “emergency” foreign aid–U.S. taxpayer dollars that will in theory be used to bolster developing...

By AF Editors • Nov 01,1998

Iraq: Forever and a Day

When military units march from one place to another, they often keep time by singing cadences. One of the most enduring of these starts off, “Here we go again, same...

By Mala Krishnamoorti • Oct 01,1998

Generation XX: Young Women Voters

It has been said that 1992, the year that four women were elected to the U.S. Senate and seventeen women were elected to the U.S. House, was the “Year of...