Obama's West Point address laid out a smart, serious Afghan strategy placing limits on America's goals. Not exactly the stirring message needed to lead a nation into battle. This weekend, for the second time in six months, President Obama flew to West...
Peter Beinart, who started a flame war with an essay criticizing Israel's rightward lurch and American Jews' failure to call the country out, on how his critics excuse inexcusable behavior. It has been a week since my essay, "The Failure of the...
In 2003, several prominent Jewish philanthropists hired Republican pollster Frank Luntz to explain why American Jewish college students were not more vigorously rebutting campus criticism of Israel. In response, he unwittingly produced the most damning indictment of the organized American Jewish community that I have ever seen. …
The Daily Beast's Peter Beinart, responding to attacks on his recent essay, says those who love Israel as a liberal democratic Jewish state should be furious with the country today-not ignore or explain away its faults. The prime minister of Israel...
A new book reports that Obama muscled the Pentagon into accepting a tight timetable for exiting Afghanistan. Peter Beinart on the political risks and rewards in sticking to the deadline. About a year from now, Washington will witness an epic clash...
Are we really complaining about the college pedigree of the Supreme Court? Peter Beinart on the misguided backlash against Ivy-educated justices. "There's about to be a backlash against the Ivy League lock on the court," explained David Brooks this...
Obama's high-court pick is young, smart, and liberal, and should be confirmed, argues Peter Beinart. But she should apologize for banning military recruitment at Harvard-a major blunder. So it's Elena Kagan. Is anyone surprised? I sometimes think...
Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrats won a seat at the table, but fell short of expectations. Peter Beinart on why third parties are even less likely to catch fire in America. I bet Charlie Crist spent last night glued to the BBC. Crist, you'll remember,...
The right's anxiety about African-Americans has been replaced by anxiety about immigrants. Peter Beinart on how Arizona's new law has ignited the civil-rights struggle for a new century. Why are large chunks of the American right so freaked out by...
A student of mine at CUNY, Carla Murphy, has created this amazing site called Develop Haiti. It is a news, analysis and opinion site for the two biggest financiers of Haiti's future: its diaspora and the development industry. Both share the same goal...