The right won that state's budget fight, reigning in unions' collective bargaining clout. Peter Beinart on how that victory ensures a Democratic victory in 2012. We're still roughly a year away, but it's already possible to predict the central dynamic...
The new Homeland Security chairman opens hearings on American Muslim terrorists this week. Peter Beinart on how the GOP's shameful religious intolerance obscures the real homeland threat. Republicans like to claim that Democrats are the "European"...
Dear world, sorry about the last 10 years. Peter Beinart on how the new wave of Mideast revolts may finally be ending America's wasteful war on terror-and why it would have been smarter not to intervene in the first place. They're exhilarating, of...
Obama's decisive response to the protests across the Middle East-and the conservative backlash-have exposed the hypocrisy of the right's shallow rhetoric on liberty and human freedom. Peter Beinart on why the supposedly idealistic American right turns...
Haley Barbour's refusal to denounce Confederate license plates is just the latest example of a Republican Party that is regressing on race-and damaging its electoral future. "I don't go around denouncing people," said Mississippi Governor Haley...
Forced to choose between national interests and national ideals, the Obama administration, and many of its fiercest domestic critics, chose ideals. That's a remarkable achievement, writes Peter Beinart. Plus, Mike Giglio on Egypt's Facebook freedom...
Israelis fear more Arab democracy means more hatred in their country. Peter Beinart on why Jerusalem needs to change-or face a Palestinian version of Tahrir Square. We're almost two weeks into the revolution in Egypt and the American media keeps...
America is losing its grip on the region, as Egypt and the Palestinian WikiLeaks-style document dump shows. Thank goodness, writes Peter Beinart in this week's Newsweek-now Obama must stop propping up their autocratic leaders. What do the mass...
Facing a Republican majority, the president had to drop his campaign-era themes for this State of the Union and pick up Clinton's-talking about "winning the future" to underscore his energy and youth. And it worked. It was a Clintonesque speech, and I...
A Detroit cop shooting offers fresh reason for the president to call for gun control in his State of the Union speech. Peter Beinart on why that's a political dead end. Plus, chat live with The Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz during the State of the Union...