The American Spectator

Special Report

Silence Isn’t Golden

Philip Klein | 6.19.09 @ 6:08AM

Amir Fakhravar has spent decades fighting for democracy in Iran, and years in the regime’s brutal prisons. He thinks President Obama should speak up for freedom.

Political Hay

The War Over War Funding

W. James Antle, III | 6.19.09 @ 6:08AM

The fight to pass Obama's spending bill for Iraq, Afghanistan, and the IMF wasn't as easy as it looked.

The Obama Watch

Fiends With Benefits

George Neumayr | 6.19.09 @ 6:08AM

In another distressing example of heterophobia, Obama's gift to gay activists this week excludes opposite-sex sinners.

topics: Gay Marriage, Domestic Partners, Federal Workers

The Public Policy

Commandeered by Climate Alarmists

Paul Chesser | 6.19.09 @ 6:07AM

Did a few Western governors and their staffs pull a fast one on other members of the Western Governors Association in the name of accelerated cap and trade?

topics: Global Warming, Environmentalism, Western Governors Association

At Large

Benign Neglect as Immigration Policy

George H. Wittman | 6.19.09 @ 6:07AM

The Obama Administration has found a new way to handle the problem of illegal immigration -- ignore it.

topics: Janet Napolitano, Illegal Immigration

Sports Arena

Footwork and Roger Federer

Roger Kaplan | 6.19.09 @ 6:06AM

Following in the tradition of the great Don Budge and Gottried von Cramm.

topics: Wimbledon, French Open, Don Budge, Gottfried von Cramm

Books in Review

Hart to Hart

James Srodes | June 2009

What are the aims of criminal law?

Washington Prowler

Walloping Walpin

The Prowler | 6.18.09 @ 6:09AM

The Obama machine will not allow anyone to get in its crooked way.

Special Report

Obama Is No Reagan: The Polish Lesson Ignored in Iran

Jeffrey Lord | 6.18.09 @ 6:08AM

Iranian cry for freedom received with miserable inadequacy by the White House.

topics: Iran, Ronald Reagan, Poland

The Obama Watch

Obama Roseannadanna

Andrew Cline | 6.18.09 @ 6:08AM

Never mind! Suddenly, holding terror suspects indefinitely without trial is OK.

topics: Guantanamo Bay, Terrorism

The Current Crisis

Obama's Senior Moment

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 6.18.09 @ 6:08AM

He is determined to restrict health services for older people.

topics: Health Care, Barack Obama, Seniors

Freedom Watch

Freedom Can't Be Rationed

Rep. Mike Pence | June 2009

The truth is, government-run health insurance takes away citizens’ freedom. From our June issue.

Feature

Pro-Mexico

Angelo M. Codevilla | June 2009

U.S. policy toward our southern relative and neighbor is deeply flawed -- and the small-minded right has been no more enlightened. Our June cover story.

Streetcar Line

(Beth)paging Hollywood

Quin Hillyer | 6.18.09 @ 6:07AM

After ten years of husbanding, a happy ending.

topics: Professional Golf, Phil Mickelson

Another Perspective

Are There Obamashares in Your Future?

Peter Hannaford | 6.18.09 @ 6:07AM

To Sen. Lamar Alexander, "taxpayer-owned" sounds better than "government-owned."

topics: General Motors, Bailout, Government Intrusion

The Right Prescription

How Obamacare Will Change Your Life

David Catron | 6.17.09 @ 6:09AM

You'll be spending more money for less care.

topics: Health Care, Government Growth

The Obama Watch

Obama's Iran Blunder

Peter Ferrara | 6.17.09 @ 6:08AM

Playing politics with Jewish lives.

topics: Foreign Policy, Iran, Middle East

The Nation's Pulse

Farmer Brown Fights Back

William Yeatman & Jeremy Lott | 6.17.09 @ 6:07AM

Green interests have met their match in ethanol-growing farmers.

topics: Global Warming, Environmentalism, Biofuels

Car Guy

Don't Know Much About Car Story

Eric Peters | 6.17.09 @ 6:07AM

GM's new honchos pride themselves on being clueless about their own products.

topics: General Motors, Automakers

The Marital Spectator

Judges Not

W. James Antle, III | June 2009

Vermont and the new democratic push for same-sex marriage. From our June issue.

Live From New York

Two Hands, Luis!

Lisa Fabrizio | 6.17.09 @ 6:05AM

Sloppy runs, hits, and errors in the modern Interleague era.

topics: Major League Baseball

Another Perspective

Petal to the Meddle

Jay D. Homnick | 6.17.09 @ 6:04AM

Flower Power in power: corrupt, cowardly, and weak.

topics: Barack Obama

Special Report

Interesting Times in Tehran

Ilan Berman | 6.16.09 @ 6:09AM

Political turmoil of a kind not seen since the Islamic Revolution of 1979.

topics: Iran, Mahmoud Ahmajinedad

Political Hay

Pat Leahy's Fish Story

Jeffrey Lord | 6.16.09 @ 6:09AM

Bush judicial nominee excoriated for all-male fishing club ex-membership: Senator silent on Sotomayor's all-female power club.

topics: Supreme Court Nominations, Patrick Leahy

At Large

D-Day and the Aging Frenchman

Andrew B. Wilson | 6.16.09 @ 6:08AM

He lived a double life under Nazi occupation -- and loves what America did to liberate France.

topics: World War II, D-Day, France

The Public Policy

A Trillion Dollars in Incompetence

Robert M. Goldberg | 6.16.09 @ 6:07AM

The Kennedy health care bill is out of its mind and out of control.

The Nation's Pulse

Hitting the Books

Bill Croke | 6.16.09 @ 6:07AM

There was a time when high school students were taught to love literature.

topics: Education, Reading

Last Call

Density Is Destiny

Philip Klein | June 2009

Liberal White Castles in the sky. From our June issue.

Movie Takes

Drag Me to Hell

James Bowman | 6.16.09 @ 6:02AM

It helps to believe in hell if you're going to make a movie in which it figures prominently.

What's Still Great

Fathers and Money

Ben Stein | 6.15.09 @ 6:10AM

Gratitude and regrets as Father's Day nears.

topics: Herbert Stein, Father

Political Hay

Who Speaks for the GOP? Who Cares?

Jeremy Lott | 6.15.09 @ 6:09AM

Democrats run against the past at their risk.

topics: Republican Party, Democratic Party

Special Report

Nothing to Hide

Mark Tooley | 6.15.09 @ 6:08AM

Did HBO's nude encounter between Churchill and FDR really happen?

topics: World War II, Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The Nation's Pulse

Class Warfare at the Beach

Ralph R. Reiland | 6.15.09 @ 6:07AM

Let them eat potato chips…

topics: Socialism, Unions, Environmentalism

The Grassroots Spectator

After the Tea Parties

Quin Hillyer | June 2009

Even before anybody dreamed of the Tea Parties, a number of conservative grassroots organizations were mobilizing. From our June issue.

topics: American Majority, Ned Ryun

Movie Takes

The Hangover

James Bowman | 6.15.09 @ 6:02AM

The after-effects of drunkenness aren't what they used to be.