How Obama Divides—and Conquers
Michael Fullilove is the director of the global issues program at the Lowy Institute and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
The same diplomatic velvet glove that has flummoxed leaders from Cuba to Al Qaeda, reports Michael Fullilove, has also sown confusion among his conservative critics.
Read Enrique Krauze's article from The New Republic posted on April 1, 2009, The Shah of Venezuela. It is a brilliant and deeply cultural insight into Hugo Chavez and his messianic commitment to himself.
Mortimer B. Zuckerman is chairman and editor in chief of U.S. News & World Report and publisher of the New York Daily News. He is also the co-founder and chairman of Boston Properties Inc. He is a trustee of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Washington Institute for Near East Studies, and the International Institute of Strategic Studies.
I suggest this article published in Foreign Affairs last year by economist Francisco Rodriguez, a Venezuelan who first supported the Chavez revolution and then became disillusioned by the empty rhetoric and the poor results. Unlike other...
Patricio Navia is a master teacher of global studies in the liberal studies program at New York University and a columnist for Poder Magazine and La Tercera newspaper in Chile.
During the presidential campaign, Joe Biden raised some eyebrows when he said, "Mark my words: It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy." Well, it's only been a week, but so far those corners of the world most averse to President Bush-Cuba, Libya, Iran-have been surprisingly receptive to his successor. The Daily Beast checks in on six of the most notorious world leaders and finds out why they've been making nice.
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.
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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.
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