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.
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
The War Hits Facebook
Ethan Perlson is a journalist and screenwriter living in Israel. He has worked as a researcher and producer for NBC News, ABC News, CNBC, and HBO Documentaries.
Benjamin Sarlin is a reporter for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.
Israel's assault on Gaza has launched an emotional firestorm on Facebook-including violent threats, Nazi slurs, and pleas for reconciliation.
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.
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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