Why I Don't Envy Hillary
Reihan Salam is a fellow at the New America Foundation and the co-author of Grand New Party.
Terrorism, the recession, rogue states, Taliban threats, dissent on global warming-not to mention a fractured elbow and all the spicy food. Reihan Salam on the real challenges of Clinton's trip.
This, Too, Shall Pass
Reihan Salam is a fellow at the New America Foundation and the co-author of Grand New Party.
The bombings are a black eye for the country's government, but Reihan Salam says Indonesia won't turn into another Pakistan thanks to a robust democracy that makes it the envy of the region.
The Jihadists Strike Back
Bruce Riedel is a senior fellow at the Saban Center in the Brookings Institution. He chaired President Obama’s strategic review of Afghanistan and Pakistan last winter and is author of The Search for Al Qaeda.
Bruce Riedel, author of The Search for al Qaeda, says Friday's bombings in Jakarta targeting Westerners prove the need for constant and renewed counterterrorism efforts.
Indonesian soldiers stand guard outside the site of a bomb blast at Ritz-Carlton hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, July 18, 2009. Investigator...
Jakarta Hotel Bombings: On the Ground
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From chaos in the lobby of the Ritz-Carlton to the presidential visit to victims in the hospital, The Daily Beast presents a wrap of developments and eyewitness accounts.
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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