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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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Rick Lazio, Demagogue

By Jeffrey Goldberg

Aug 23 2010, 10:08 AM ET Comment

Rick Lazio, who is running for governor of New York (and good luck with that), is a very nice guy, but also a demagogue. We appeared together on Meet the Press yesterday (I'll post video and a transcript when I get them) and he spent most of his allotted time insinuating darkly that Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf, the man behind the not-at-Ground-Zero mosque, is some sort of Iranian- and al Qaeda-funded plant. He refuses to deal with the not-very-complicated reality that Rauf is actually a leader in bridging gaps between Islam and the West. There's an actual record of these efforts, but Lazio refused to even acknowledge that Rauf was anything other than Osama Bin Laden's stalking horse.

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