David Rohde

David Rohde is a columnist for Reuters, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and a former reporter for The New York Times. His latest book, Beyond War: Reimagining American Influence in a New Middle East, was published in April. More

He is the author, with Kristen Mulvihill, of A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping From Two Sides.

Why Immigration Is the Most Important Debate the Presidential Campaigns Aren't Having

Why Immigration Is the Most Important Debate the Presidential Campaigns Aren't Having

Washington's failure to enact immigration reform is slowing down American businesses. Does anybody care? More »

What Romney Got Wrong in Israel

What Romney Got Wrong in Israel

The presidential candidate's simplistic narratives about innate greatness fail to explain either Israel's accomplishments or America's challenges. More »

The Libor Scandal and Capitalism's Moral Decay

The Libor Scandal and Capitalism's Moral Decay

The scandal engulfing the financial industry is yet another sign that our business leaders no longer respect the rule of law. More »

The Global War on Journalists

The Global War on Journalists

Reporters, particularly women, are coming under fire around the world. More »

It's Time for Obama to Lead From the Front on Syria—Here's How

It's Time for Obama to Lead From the Front on Syria—Here's How

How the U.S. can confront Russia for its patronage of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. More »

Is This Maine Independent the Solution to Our Partisan Woes?

Is This Maine Independent the Solution to Our Partisan Woes?

Angus King is the favorite to pick up the open U.S. Senate seat in the state and could become the deciding vote in a closely-divided chamber. More »

Visit Afghanistan's 'Little America,' and See the Folly of For-Profit War

Visit Afghanistan's 'Little America,' and See the Folly of For-Profit War

First with an ill-fated Cold War-era project and now with the war today, Helmand province has been the source of enormously lucrative private contracting that has done little to improve peoples' lives. More »

How the Global Middle Class Can Save the American Middle Class

How the Global Middle Class Can Save the American Middle Class

Here's the game plan: hire over here, sell over there. More companies are creating jobs by taking advantage of rising global wealth More »

Ending NATO's Double Standard on International Justice

Ending NATO's Double Standard on International Justice

The West puts others on trial for war crimes, the argument goes, while exempting its own forces from scrutiny. More »

The Lesson of JP Morgan's $2 Billion Loss: Break Up the Big Banks

The Lesson of JP Morgan's $2 Billion Loss: Break Up the Big Banks

The news is astonishing. And yet, it changes nothing. The banks are still too big to fail, and still, they fail. More »

Bosnia's Lesson: When American Intervention Works (Partly)

Bosnia's Lesson: When American Intervention Works (Partly)

Contrasting the U.S. experiences in the wars here, in Iraq, and in Afghanistan. More »

Ghosts of a Genocide: The Contentious Ethnic Politics of Today's Bosnia

Ghosts of a Genocide: The Contentious Ethnic Politics of Today's Bosnia

A mayoral election in Srebrenica, the site of a horrific 1995 massacre, is reopening scars from one of Europe's worst conflicts since World War Two. More »

Why Obama Is Winning the Battle for Middle America

Why Obama Is Winning the Battle for Middle America

The dueling platforms from the president and the GOP front-runner are both disappointing. But one is much more disappointing than the other. More »

Should the World Trust Islamists?

Should the World Trust Islamists?

Newly powerful groups in Egypt and Tunisia cannot afford to become Hamas-like international pariahs, but they should be watched closely. More »

Can Tunisia Become the Silicon Valley of the Arab World?

Can Tunisia Become the Silicon Valley of the Arab World?

The country could be a model for how economic innovation can help the changing Middle East succeed. More »

The Anti-Walmart: The Secret Sauce of Wegmans Is People

The Anti-Walmart: The Secret Sauce of Wegmans Is People

Wegmans, which operates its 79 stores in New York, Pennsylvania and four other East Coast states, shows that a business can generously train its workforce and profit handsomely. More »

5 Myths About the Afghan War

5 Myths About the Afghan War

How the U.S. can withdraw without too much of a disaster. More »

The Islamic World's Culture War, Played Out on TV Soap Operas

The Islamic World's Culture War, Played Out on TV Soap Operas

How Turkish TV dramas explore, and sometimes flaunt, some of the Middle East's touchiest social issues. More »

Why the World Must Prepare to Arm Syria's Rebels

Why the World Must Prepare to Arm Syria's Rebels

Bashar al-Assad is winning, and while it isn't yet time to supply opposition fighters, it might be soon. More »

This Is What Job Creation Really Looks Like

This Is What Job Creation Really Looks Like

In Washington, tax-cut conservatives face off against stimulus-now liberals to raise employment. In the real world, party orthodoxy crumbles. More »

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