The Hotspots No Speech Can Fix
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.
Obama's UN speech was fine, but words won't solve much. Leslie H. Gelb's advice to the president: Go slow on Afghanistan, do community organizing in the Mideast-and don't snub the dictators.
Obama's Catholic Conversion
John Hendren was named ABC News correspondent based in the Washington, D.C., bureau in 2006. Before joining ABC News, he was the Pentagon correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio; the Washington, D.C., correspondent at the Seattle Times and a national writer and investigative reporter for The Associated Press.
With his Notre Dame speech, the president can no longer avoid the abortion debate-a debate, John Hendren reports, that he's increasingly winning among America's divided Catholics.
Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean
Edward Kritzler is a historian and a former New York-based reporter. He lives in Kingston, Jamaica.
In his new book, Ed Kritzler unlocks an unknown chapter in Jewish history-the Iberian Jews who escaped the fires of the Inquisition in the 17th century and conspired with Holland and England to seize a New World colony. Read an excerpt here.
The Jewish Conquistadors
Edward Kritzler is a historian and a former New York-based reporter. He lives in Kingston, Jamaica.
Read an excerpt from Ed Kritzler's new book which unlocks an unknown chapter in Jewish history-the Iberian Jews who escaped the fires of the Inquisition in the 17th century and conspired with Holland and England to seize a New World colony.
Sarah Palin, Beware: The Evangelical Intrusion Is Over
Garry Wills is professor of history emeritus at Northwestern University. His books include Inventing America: Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America. His book Nixon Agonistes earned him a coveted place on Nixon’s list of political opponents.
The religious forces that helped elect Bush have lost their grip on American politics.
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.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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