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Could We Still Lose Iraq?
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Kenneth M. Pollack is Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution and a former Director for Persian Gulf Affairs at the National Security Council.
As we ramp up in Afghanistan, Iraq is in brittle shape. Kenneth M. Pollack on how America is panicking Baghdad-and the risks of a return to chaos.
Terrified Whispers in Pakistan
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Fatima Bhutto is a graduate of Columbia University and the School of Oriental and African Studies. She is working on a book to be published by Jonathan Cape in 2010. Fatima lives and works in Karachi, Pakistan.
As reliable information in Pakistan dries up, ours has become a fearful populace addicted to rumors and whispers about who is targeted next.
Hotel Bombings in Jakarta
Indonesian soldiers stand guard outside the site of a bomb blast at Ritz-Carlton hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, July 18, 2009. Investigator...
What Are We About to Pass?
10 Power Food Combos
Divya Gugnani is the CEO and founder of BehindtheBurner.com, an emerging culinary media brand that creates expert-based content about food, wine, mixology, and nutrition.
How Barack Beat Bibi
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, will be published by HarperCollins in June. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
11 Astonishing Video Moments from Health Care's Big Day
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The Road to Health-Care Reform: Five Milestones
Benjamin Sarlin is Washington correspondent for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.
The Week Ahead in Culture
Jaimie Etkin is an editorial assistant at The Daily Beast. She has also written for Us Weekly and Radar.
Max Read is a writer living and working in New York City.
