Battle for American Jews
Matthew Yglesias is a Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. He is the author of Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats.
An upstart Washington advocacy group called J Street has mounted a leftist challenge to the hawkish establishment over who speaks for American Jews-but Matthew Yglesias says the old guard's response risks alienating Jews and hurting Israel.
How Hillary Can Serve Women Now
Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli was appointed by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as senior adviser for women’s empowerment. She highlights the importance of women’s empowerment as an element of U.S. foreign policy and designs programs to implement that goal. She spearheads the efforts of the secretary’s Women Leaders’ Working Group, composed of nearly 40 foreign ministers and heads of state, and promotes women’s empowerment through political participation; economic empowerment; education; and justice.
During her meetings at the U.N. General Assembly this week, the secretary of State, a longtime promoter of women's empowerment, should press for action against rape as a tactic of war, says Ambassador Shirin Tahir-Kheli.
Elections on Tuesday were supposed to end a political deadlock in Israel, but now the country's politics are more complicated than ever. Centrist party Kadima won the most seats of any party, but the conservative Likud Party and an assortment of right-wing parties captured the majority of seats in the Knesset, leading to a frantic race on both sides to engineer a working coalition to govern the country. Who will be Israel's next prime minister when the dust settles?
Israel's Election-Night Surprise
Dan Raviv is host of a radio magazine, The CBS News Weekend Roundup, and author of a book on US-Israel relations, Friends in Deed, and a bestseller on Israeli intelligence, Every Spy a Prince.
When exit polls showed Tzipi Livni as the surprise winner, a cheer went up at Kadima headquarters. But will Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu end up prime minister?
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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