Martin Indyk is the vice president and director of foreign policy at The Brookings Institution and author of the recently published Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East (Simon & Schuster 2009).
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Iran at the Breaking Point
Far from petering out after the summer's crackdowns, Iran's opposition movement appears stronger than ever, and the government has responded by shooting protesters, jailing activists, and allegedly assassinating opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi's nephew. Is this the beginning of the end for Iran's ruling regime?
A Skeptic's Guide to Copenhagen
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Tunku Varadarajan is a national affairs correspondent and writer at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and a professor at NYU’s Stern Business School. He is a former assistant managing editor at The Wall Street Journal. (Follow him on Twitter here.)
As the global summit on climate change gets under way in Copenhagen, Tunku Varadarajan offers an eyebrow-raising A-Z guide to the proceedings.
Jane Fonda's Daughter on Green Sex
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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.
As the daughter of Jane Fonda and Roger Vadim, eco-advice columnist Vanessa Vadim is also Hollywood royalty. She talks to Lloyd Grove about why Barbarella is feminist and what sex toys are good for the planet.
Why Bibi Humiliated Biden
America's Craziest Cities
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U.S. Debunks Autism Myth
Adam Winkler is a constitutional law professor at UCLA.
What Liz Doesn't Get About Lawyers
Charles Fried was Solicitor General of the United States. His book with Gregory Fried, Because It Is Wrong: Torture, Privacy and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror, will be published by W. W. Norton in September.
Gregory Fried is Chair of the Philosophy Department at Suffolk University. His book with Charles Fried, Because It Is Wrong: Torture, Privacy and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror, will be published by W. W. Norton in September.
Haiti Loses Its Lifeboat
Dr. Sheri Fink the award-winning book, War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival (Public Affairs, 2003), about wartime Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. She received her M.D. and Ph.D. from Stanford. She was the recipient of a Kaiser Media Fellowship in Health from the Kaiser Family Foundation and is currently a senior fellow at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
