What the Chinese Heard
Carolynne Wheeler is a Canadian journalist based in Beijing. Her work has also appeared in The Daily Telegraph (UK), The Guardian (UK), Monocle magazine (UK) and The Globe and Mail (Canada).
Obama is drawing fire in the U.S. for what he didn't say to Chinese authorities. Carolynne Wheeler reports from Beijing on how the government restricted what its citizens didn't hear.
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.
Obama's 'Smart Power' Play
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lewis M. Simons is co-author with Sen. Christopher S. Bond of The Next Front: Southeast Asia and the Road to Global Peace with Islam. He also writes for Foreign Affairs.
As he heads to Southeast Asia, the president has a chance to re-engage with the region's Muslims, strike a blow against radical Islam-and separate himself from Bush.
Why Iran Loves Ambiguity
Michael Adler, a longtime reporter for Agence France-Presse, is currently a scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center and is writing a book on Iran’s nuclear diplomacy, which he has covered for most of this decade.
As the latest U.S. bid to defuse Tehran's nuclear threat falters, Michael Adler dissects the strategic upsides for the Ahmadinejad regime of further delay.
Musharraf on Fixing Pakistan
Michael Smerconish is a nationally syndicated radio host. His latest book, Instinct: The Man Who Stopped the 20th Hijacker, was published last month.
The former president tells The Daily Beast's Michael Smerconish that he supports an Afghan surge, is ready to make deals to defeat the Taliban-and won't rule out another run for political office.
Bin Laden's Recruiting Strategy
Jamie Rubin is the former assistant secretary of State for public affairs and chief spokesman for the State Department (1997-2000). He was also a top policy adviser to Madeleine K. Albright and served as a special negotiator during the Kosovo war. He is an adjunct professor at Columbia University.
Reza Aslan's How to Win a Cosmic War chronicles the history of jihadism and asks if the election of Obama has transformed our thinking about the war on terror?
Inside Obama's War Room
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.
The president rules his National Security Council meetings with an iron fist, making rapid-fire decisions. But Leslie H. Gelb says the team's frenzied pace reveals a worrisome lack of strategy.
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.
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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.
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