Obama's Flawed Record in the Middle East
On most everything other than Iran's nuclear program, passivity has been the theme of the administration's approach to the region. More »
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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.
On most everything other than Iran's nuclear program, passivity has been the theme of the administration's approach to the region. More »
The Israeli Prime Minister should have left that cartoon bomb at home. But over the past several years, he has still succeeded in getting the international community to take the Iranian nuclear threat seriously. More »
With an election upcoming, the Israeli Prime Minister might have been targeting his U.N. speech--and his cartoon bomb--at a domestic audience. More »
The Israeli Prime Minister's cartoon bomb stunt at the U.N. was both puzzling and counterproductive. More »
An argument, made a few years ago, about the need to take genocidal threats seriously. More »
"If you are not going to be better tomorrow than today, then what need have you for tomorrow?" More »
Blasphemy is an indispensable human right. As Americans, we are compelled to defend the right of any blasphemer to be an asshole. More »
A look at how the Obama--or, possibly, Romney--might approach the Middle East peace process over the next four years. More »
In his address to the UN General Assembly, Obama's position on Iran's nuclear program remained consistent, and unmistakable. More »
I'm on the road right now in Colorado, but I've had a chance to catch up on various interrelated controversies. More »
There is much to respond to on the Internet, but let me rebut one calumnious assertion right away. More »
Since Springsteen concerts are religious experiences, I figured it was okay for us to be at Nationals Park for what seemed to be most of Shabbat. More »
Maureen Dowd may not know this, but her most recent column is peddling an old stereotype. More »
The Israeli Prime Minister might want Mitt Romney to win the presidential race, but he doesn't seem to believe that will happen. More »
The film did not cause violence. Violent men caused the violence. More »
I found this note in my in-box earlier this week, from a certain French television network. More »
The Israeli prime minister's comments about the U.S. leadership looks a lot like meddling. More »
The idea that U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens was the "wrong guy" for violent Islamists to target carries the outrageous implication that there are "right guys" out there as well. More »
Continuing the conversation on the U.S.'s handling of blasphemous or offensive speech. More »
More from Robert Satloff, executive director of the Washington Director of Near East Policy. More »
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