The Newest Israel-Iran Missile Battle
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.
When Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrives in Israel today, a source in Israeli intelligence tells The Daily Beast's Gerald Posner, he'll hear about a failed test for a critical defensive missile shield that the U.S. has helped develop-a key strategic component in the face-off with Iran.
What Obama Can Learn from Mandela
Sandra McElwaine is a Washington-based journalist. She has been a reporter for The Washington Star, The Baltimore Sun, a correspondent for CNN and People and Washington editor of Vogue and Cosmopolitan. Currently she writes for The Washington Post, Time and Forbes.
Stan Greenberg, the Democratic pollster who masterminded campaigns for Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, and other world leaders, shares lessons and secrets from the war room.
Elections on Tuesday were supposed to end a political deadlock in Israel, but now the country's politics are more complicated than ever. Centrist party Kadima won the most seats of any party, but the conservative Likud Party and an assortment of right-wing parties captured the majority of seats in the Knesset, leading to a frantic race on both sides to engineer a working coalition to govern the country. Who will be Israel's next prime minister when the dust settles?
Israel's Election-Night Surprise
Dan Raviv is host of a radio magazine, The CBS News Weekend Roundup, and author of a book on US-Israel relations, Friends in Deed, and a bestseller on Israeli intelligence, Every Spy a Prince.
When exit polls showed Tzipi Livni as the surprise winner, a cheer went up at Kadima headquarters. But will Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu end up prime minister?
Carter's One Regret
Reza Aslan, a contributor to the Daily Beast, is assistant professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside and senior fellow at the Orfalea Center on Global and International Studies at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of the bestseller No god but God and How to Win a Cosmic War.
In a revealing new interview, The Daily Beast's Reza Aslan talks to Jimmy Carter about what he would have done differently in the bungled hostage rescue of 1980-plus, the "political suicide" of condemning Israel.
Will Obama Punish Israel?
Dan Raviv is host of a radio magazine, The CBS News Weekend Roundup, and author of a book on US-Israel relations, Friends in Deed, and a bestseller on Israeli intelligence, Every Spy a Prince.
With a cease-fire reached in Gaza, Israeli politicians now wonder how America's new Mideast policy will affect the country's elections.
Hosni Mubarak, Tony Blair, and Dennis Ross: The supposed fixers are on the march trying to broker a cease-fire. Who has the best shot? By Benjamin Sarlin
Memo to Hillary: Remember Bill's Mideast Bungle
Patrick Tyler has reported extensively from both the Middle East and Washington for the New York Times and the Washington Post. A Texan, he lives in Washington, D.C.
In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East-from the Cold Wars to the War on Terror, Patrick Tyler examines how Bill Clinton's lack of discipline undermined his dream of brokering peace in the Middle East.
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.
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.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
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.
Partner Sites: Expedia| Hotels| Hotwire| Urbanspoon| Vimeo
