Jeffrey Goldberg

Jeffrey Goldberg is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and a recipient of the National Magazine Award for Reporting. Author of the book Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror, Goldberg also writes the magazine's advice column.
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Before joining The Atlantic in 2007, Goldberg was a Middle East correspondent, and the Washington correspondent, for The New Yorker. Previously, he served as a correspondent for The New York Times Magazine and New York magazine. He has also written for the Jewish Daily Forward, and was a columnist for The Jerusalem Post.

His book Prisoners was hailed as one of the best books of 2006 by the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, The Progressive, Washingtonian magazine, and Playboy. Goldberg rthe recipient of the 2003 National Magazine Award for Reporting for his coverage of Islamic terrorism. He is also the winner of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists prize for best international investigative journalist; the Overseas Press Club award for best human-rights reporting; and the Abraham Cahan Prize in Journalism. He is also the recipient of 2005's Anti-Defamation League Daniel Pearl Prize.

In 2001, Goldberg was appointed the Syrkin Fellow in Letters of the Jerusalem Foundation, and in 2002 he became a public-policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.

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What’s Your Problem?

Magazine June 2012

What to do if you’re a marriage counselor named John Edwards, and other advice

What’s Your Problem?

Magazine May 2012

How to get Ben Bernanke’s beard, and other advice

What’s Your Problem?

Magazine April 2012

Never pay for marijuana, and other advice

What’s Your Problem?

Magazine March 2012

When to send your teenage daughter to a tattoo artist, and other advice

What’s Your Problem?

Magazine January 2012

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Grapes of Wrath

Magazine February 2012

What the 12 most famous words ever published in The Atlantic tell us about the spirit that inspired the Union

The Ally From Hell

Magazine December 2011

Pakistan lies. It hosted Osama bin Laden (knowingly or not). Its government is barely functional. It hates the democracy next door. It is home to both radical jihadists and a large and growing nuclear arsenal (which it fears the U.S. will seize). Its intelligence service sponsors terrorists who attack American troops. With a friend like this, who needs enemies?

What’s Your Problem?

Magazine December 2011

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What’s Your Problem?

Magazine November 2011

What not to say about a friend’s fiancée, and other advice

Chris Christie

Magazine November 2011

A GOP governor slams those inciting anti-Muslim bigotry

What's Your Problem?

Magazine October 2011

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What's Your Problem?

Magazine September 2011

Signs that your husband is turning gay, and other advice

What's Your Problem?

Magazine July 2011

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What's Your Problem?

Magazine June 2011

Don’t propose on The Today Show, and other advice

Danger: Falling Tyrants

Magazine June 2011

As dictatorships crumble across the Middle East, what happens if Arab democracy means the rise of radical Islamism? Does promoting American values while protecting American interests—most notably, containing Iran and preserving our access to oil—require the Obama administration to call for more democracy in one country while propping up the monarch next door? In a word, yes.

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