Obama's Bad Trip
Richard Wolffe is Daily Beast columnist and an award-winning journalist, and senior strategist at Public Strategies. He covered the entire length of Barack Obama's presidential campaign for Newsweek magazine. His book, Renegade: The Making of a President, was published by Crown in June.
He bowed to Japan. He treaded lightly with China. And then Israel thumbed its nose at Obama's calls to freeze settlements. Richard Wolffe on why the president can't wait to come home.
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World leaders have converged at the U.N. General Assembly this week for glad-handing and some serious face time. VIEW OUR GALLERY of the most memorable moments so far-from Obama bringing the Israeli and Palestinian leaders together to Sarkozy addressing the climate summit.
Last Chance for Israel?
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.
Israel and Palestine have agreed to relaunch peace talks without preconditions as soon as possible, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said after a 40-minute meeting with President Obama today. After Obama urged the leaders to seek peace in a brief but strongly-worded speech, Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas shook hands, the first time they have ever done so, reports the Jerusalem Post. Plus, Reza Aslan on why Netanyahu would be wise to listen to the president's words of warning.
Memo to Obama: Cairo Was a Mistake—UPDATE
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.
Obama blew a real shot at reconciliation with the Muslim world by picking Cairo for his historic speech, writes The Daily Beast's Reza Aslan.
Abbas Comes to Washington
Eric Alterman is a professor of English and journalism at Brooklyn College and a professor of journalism at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. He is the author, most recently, of Why We're Liberals: A Handbook for Restoring America's Important Ideals.
Thursday's Obama-Abbas White House summit presented the United States with a quandary: what to do with a potential peace partner whose only asset is that he's breathing.
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.
Jolie hunt is the global head of public relations for Thomson Reuters, appointed April 2008. Prior to that she served as global director of corporate and business affairs for IBM Corporation She was the director of PR for the Financial Times. She lives between New York and London.
John Barrasso is the junior senator from Wyoming.
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
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