Bogging Down in Kabul
Matthew Yglesias is a Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. He is the author of Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats.
Afghanistan is different from Iraq, right? Why Matthew Yglesias is rethinking that assumption-and where the antiwar left is headed.
Al Qaeda's New Murder Plot
Bruce Riedel is a senior fellow at the Saban Center in the Brookings Institution. He chaired President Obama’s strategic review of Afghanistan and Pakistan last winter and is author of The Search for Al Qaeda.
Al Qaeda is claiming credit for Thursday's assassination attempt on Prince Muhammad bin Nayif, Saudi Arabia's counterterrorism chief who led a successful crackdown on the terrorist group. Should the kingdom expect another reign of terror?
The Next Terror Target
Bruce Riedel is a senior fellow at the Saban Center in the Brookings Institution. He chaired President Obama’s strategic review of Afghanistan and Pakistan last winter and is author of The Search for Al Qaeda.
Now that the U.S. has reportedly knocked off the head of the Pakistani Taliban, Bruce Riedel says America and its allies must eliminate a far more dangerous threat.
Are We Losing Afghanistan?
Bruce Riedel is a senior fellow at the Saban Center in the Brookings Institution. He chaired President Obama’s strategic review of Afghanistan and Pakistan last winter and is author of The Search for Al Qaeda.
As the U.S. launches a new surge, the Taliban and al Qaeda are sensing victory. The Brookings Institution's Bruce Riedel on what G-8 leaders-and Obama-must do this week to shift the momentum.
Obama’s All Action, No Strategy in Afghanistan
Russ Hoyle is the author of Going to War (Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2008), a detailed account of the 18-month run-up to the Iraq war. He is a former senior editor at the New York Daily News, Time, and the New Republic. Hoyle is at work on a new book about counterinsurgency and the U.S. military.
An international conference, thousands of fresh US troops, even possible talks with the Taliban-Obama's in a diplomatic frenzy. But what's his Afghan policy?
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
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