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.

Imagining a Meeting Between David Petraeus and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards

Imagining a Meeting Between David Petraeus and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards

More from Robert Satloff, executive director of the Washington Director of Near East Policy. More »

'Sam Bacile, Israeli Jew,' May Actually Be Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, Coptic Christian

'Sam Bacile, Israeli Jew,' May Actually Be Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, Coptic Christian

But the fiction that an anti-Muhammad movie was a Jewish production has already spread across the Middle East. More »

Muhammad-Film Consultant: 'Sam Bacile' Is Not Israeli, and Not a Real Name

Muhammad-Film Consultant: 'Sam Bacile' Is Not Israeli, and Not a Real Name

Revelations about the alleged producer of the now-infamous trailer for "The Innocence of Muslims." More »

The Collision Between Blasphemy and the 1st Amendment

The Collision Between Blasphemy and the 1st Amendment

How should the U.S. government respond when America's most cherished ideals are the alleged cause of violence? More »

Romney's Statement After the First Death in Libya Slanders Obama

Romney's Statement After the First Death in Libya Slanders Obama

The Republican blames the president for what he can't control and refuses to acknowledge Obama's progress in the war on terror. More »

Watch This Video to See Chris Stevens, An Exemplary Diplomat, at Work

Watch This Video to See Chris Stevens, An Exemplary Diplomat, at Work

Here's slain U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens's welcome video introducing himself to the Libyan people. More »

RNC Already Politicizing Anti-American Rioting

RNC Already Politicizing Anti-American Rioting

Will Reince Priebus say anything in order to gain a moment's political advantage? More »

U.S. Ambassador to Libya Killed in Mob Attack

U.S. Ambassador to Libya Killed in Mob Attack

The U.S. ambassador to Libya has been killed during an attack on the American consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi. More »

Netanyahu and Obama Need a Marriage Counselor

Netanyahu and Obama Need a Marriage Counselor

A possible way out of the repetitive and highly-fraught relationship between the two leaders. More »

The End of Men (at The Atlantic)

The End of Men (at The Atlantic)

My friend Hanna Rosin's new book, "The End of Men," is officially out today. More »

Why Is Bibi Going Ballistic?

Why Is Bibi Going Ballistic?

Here's why Israel's Prime Minister appears to be losing his patience with the U.S. and the Obama administration. More »

Iran Continues Its Peaceful Work on Atomic Warheads

Iran Continues Its Peaceful Work on Atomic Warheads

This work includes things like "calculating the destructive power of an atomic warhead," according to the latest intelligence. More »

Robert Satloff on Next Steps in the Iran Crisis

Robert Satloff on Next Steps in the Iran Crisis

An interview with the executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. More »

On That Contentious Netanyahu-Shapiro Meeting, Oren Weighs In

On That Contentious Netanyahu-Shapiro Meeting, Oren Weighs In

The Israeli ambassador to the United States' exclusive comment on an alleged closed-door confrontation between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and American ambassador Dan Shapiro. More »

Intelligence Committee Chair Describes Explosive Confrontation Between Netanyahu and American Ambassador

Intelligence Committee Chair Describes Explosive Confrontation Between Netanyahu and American Ambassador

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro allegedly argued over the Obama's administration's Iran policy. More »

How to Understand the DNC's Jerusalem Imbroglio

How to Understand the DNC's Jerusalem Imbroglio

The whole set-to is about nothing, actually, except the exploitation of neurosis. More »

The DNC Regains Its Cunning, Ceases to Forget Jerusalem

The DNC Regains Its Cunning, Ceases to Forget Jerusalem

Reversing an earlier omission from their party platform, the Democrats have decided that Jerusalem is in fact the capital of Israel. More »

If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem

If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem

After the Democratic Party's betrayal, Israel's capital has been relocated from Jerusalem to the quiet Lower Galilee city of Afula. More »

Should Negotiations With Iran Be Given a Chance?

Should Negotiations With Iran Be Given a Chance?

The Iranian regime's behavior over the past few years reveals little interest in negotiating with the United States on any matter--large or small. More »

Answers to All Your Questions About Iran, Israel, Bibi and Obama!

Answers to All Your Questions About Iran, Israel, Bibi and Obama!

A nerve-racking and potentially violent international crisis, demystified. More »

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