The Bush team believed American power was crucial to the spread of democracy worldwide. Tunisia proves them wrong. Peter Beinart on the real engine of change in the Arab world-and the waning of U.S. clout in the Middle East. Here's the classic way to...
Instead of blaming people like Sarah Palin for the attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, liberals should target the casual assumption that the only real terrorist threat we face is from jihadist Islam-not good old-fashioned white Americans. Liberals...
The upstarts of the new Republican Congress have a risky foreign policy platform-no plan at all. Peter Beinart on how Tea Party outrage over government spending ignores the fact that deficits are often caused by wars. There's nothing conservatives...
Richard Holbrooke pushed harder and cared more than other American foreign-policy players. Peter Beinart on Holbrooke's special blend of superpower swagger and moral passion. There will probably never be another American diplomat like Richard...
The Netanyahu government got Obama to buckle on the settlements freeze. And now, Israel can look forward to a future of mounting isolation with no prospect for peace. Yasher Koach, Bibi, it looks like the White House has finally given up. For close...
Conservatives cheer the WikiLeaks cables showing Arab leaders urging war with Iran-though most Arabs oppose it. Whatever happened to the Bush democracy doctrine in the Middle East? Conservatives are crowing about the WikiLeaks revelations about the...
The new WikiLeaks document dump is fun in a voyeuristic sort of way-a Putin-Berlusconi bromance!-but fails to add much to the public debate about American foreign policy, says Peter Beinart. The hype-to-payoff ratio approximated Geraldo's opening of...
Republicans want power, but won't use it to make decisions. Peter Beinart on why Jon Kyl and his fellow leaders refuse to take responsibility-and the danger they put us in. "One can see a new sobriety in the air," announced David Brooks the other day...
New York Democrat Charlie Rangel was found guilty on 11 counts of ethics violations today. Peter Beinart says the House will be a duller, meaner place when he leaves. I'm sure Charlie Rangel did whatever the House ethics committee says he did. I'm...
The President will skip China on his Asia tour, but his itinerary signals America's growing unease with the superpower's global clout. Peter Beinart on why Obama's cozying up to China's rivals this week-and how his policy is more hawkish than Bush's....