The Anti-Defamation League's opposition to building a mosque at the site of the 9/11 attacks betrays its own founding principles. Peter Beinart on the Jewish group's Muslim double standard. The other day, when the Anti-Defamation League came out...
Five years ago, Republicans backed tax cuts-but said deficits didn't matter. Today, they say deficits are all that matters, but still like tax cuts. Peter Beinart on the party's economic time warp. What do the debate over the Afghan war and the...
The Tea Party's fight with the NAACP reveals what's wrong with the debate about race. Peter Beinart calls for a new kind of affirmative action, based on class, not skin color. Is the Tea Party racist? It all depends on what you mean by racist. For...
In today's Republican Party, racial barriers may be falling, but religious barriers are alive and well. Just ask Bobby Jindal and Nikki Haley. Peter Beinart on the GOP's phony diversity. The GOP has a new rallying cry: Diversity! After years of...
Liberals brand the Obama presidency a flop, comparing him unfavorably to FDR and LBJ. Peter Beinart on how fear helped them-and why Obama needs a Huey Long. "Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments...
At the White House Tuesday, Israel's prime minister didn't bother mentioning Gaza or a Palestinian State. Peter Beinart on why Obama should drop the nice-guy act and give Israel more tough love. Don't listen to what Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack...
The president has tried to avoid public spats with Bibi Netanyahu. But as the Israeli prime minister visits Washington, Obama needs to keep the pressure on-or abandon hope of a Palestinian state. At some point during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
FOUR years ago Peter Beinart published a book titled The Good Fight: Why Liberals — and Only Liberals — Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again. There he called for a liberalism that battles Islamist totalitarianism as forthrightly as Cold War liberals opposed Communist totalitarianism...read more
Peter Beinart was wrong on Iraq - the former editor of the New Republic, he was one of the liberal hawks who supported the 2003 invasion, a position he's come to lament - but let's give him this much: He's a smart, reasoned political analyst who doesn't resort to hyperbole and hysteria when making a point (which is probably why he doesn't turn up on ...
The pressure to fall in line behind new U.S. Afghan commander David Petraeus could force out members of Obama's foreign-policy team. Peter Beinart on why firing Ambassador Eikenberry would be a bad idea. General Stanley McChrystal may not be the only...