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. More

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.

Fareed Zakaria Responds to the Charge of Quote-Stealing

Fareed Zakaria Responds to the Charge of Quote-Stealing

In my post from this morning, I argued that quote-lifting, or quote-theft, is widely considered to be a journalistic sin. Fareed disagrees. More »

Fareedenfreude (or, Alternatively, Schadenfareed)

Fareedenfreude (or, Alternatively, Schadenfareed)

Man, when a high-profile person does something stupid or self-destructive, the Twittersphere can be like a scene out of The Walking Dead. More »

7 Reasons Why Israel Should Not Attack Iran's Nuclear Facilities

7 Reasons Why Israel Should Not Attack Iran's Nuclear Facilities

Israeli officials may see a "zero hour" for attacking Iranian nuclear facilities, but it could backfire. More »

What It's Like to Eat at The Atlantic

What It's Like to Eat at The Atlantic

Ta-Nehisi Coates is going to the wrong parties, apparently. More »

Via Ta-Nehisi, Hummus, Public Enemy, and Springsteen's 'Nebraska'

Via Ta-Nehisi, Hummus, Public Enemy, and Springsteen's 'Nebraska'

Fellow Voice Ta-Nehisi Coates gets his first lesson in Bruce Springsteen 101. More »

The Atlantic Iran Panel: Chance of War Increases

The Atlantic Iran Panel: Chance of War Increases

The chances of war with Iran are now at 38 percent, according to a group of 22 experts. More »

Jack Shafer Points Out a Flaw in Ahmadinejad's Thinking

Jack Shafer Points Out a Flaw in Ahmadinejad's Thinking

The noted media critic debunks the Iranian president's latest treatise on Zionist influence. More »

Your Morning Dose of Ahmadinejad Eliminationism

Your Morning Dose of Ahmadinejad Eliminationism

Iran's president opines on the "horrendous Zionist clan," and related matters. More »

Romney and Obama: No Real Difference on Iran Rhetoric

Romney and Obama: No Real Difference on Iran Rhetoric

Both Romney and Obama seem to believe that confrontation with the Islamic Republic is inevitable. More »

Mitt Romney on the Greatest Threat to U.S. Security

Mitt Romney on the Greatest Threat to U.S. Security

Romney says that Iran's nuclear program is the U.S.'s most significant security challenge. A brief look at whether he is correct. More »

Temple Mount Tackiness

Temple Mount Tackiness

Romney campaigns at one of the holiest places in Judaism on one of the most solemn days of the Jewish year. More »

Why Obama Is Tougher on Iran Than Romney Could Ever Be

Why Obama Is Tougher on Iran Than Romney Could Ever Be

Romney is attempting to convince Americans that he will take a harder line on Iran than Obama. There is reason to doubt that he will be able to. More »

'True Believers' by Kurt Andersen: An Interview About the '60s

'True Believers' by Kurt Andersen: An Interview About the '60s

The author discusses his new novel, about a woman who's hiding a secret from the mythical decade. More »

Did Netanyahu Rush to Blame Iran?

Did Netanyahu Rush to Blame Iran?

Responsibility for the Bulgaria attack remains murky, even as a former Gauntanamo Bay detainee with Al Qaeda ties is implicated. More »

Did Hezbollah Do It?

Did Hezbollah Do It?

The Bulgaria attack could indicate that Hezbollah has gone back to attacking Israeli and Jewish targets outside of the Middle East. More »

Video That May Be of the Bulgaria Bomber

Video That May Be of the Bulgaria Bomber

The killer of eight Israeli tourists might have been caught on a security camera. More »

God Bless Bob Costas

God Bless Bob Costas

America's preeminent sportscaster will protest the IOC's insensitive decision to not mark the 40th anniversary of the slaughter of Israel's Olympic athletes. More »

Tablet Magazine's Ghastly Attack on Holocaust Survivors

Tablet Magazine's Ghastly Attack on Holocaust Survivors

As one of the commenters on the piece wrote, "I can't imagine the pain of having a child or grandchild like this." More »

Some Good Old-Fashioned Red-Baiting

Some Good Old-Fashioned Red-Baiting

Uh-oh. Run for the hills. Someone has discovered the pernicious role Camp Kinderland is playing in bringing about Communist rule in America. More »

Hezbollah's Hassan Nasrallah: Dead Syrian Leaders Are Heroes

Hezbollah's Hassan Nasrallah: Dead Syrian Leaders Are Heroes

Even after yesterday's attack in Damascus, the Hezbollah leader is sticking by his friends during tough times. More »

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