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June 6, 2011
Blog: News Desk
To-Do List: Boastful Hackers and Innocent Cucumbers
To know: Five Americans were killed in an attack in Baghdad on Monday. Israeli soldiers opened fire on pro-Palestinian protesters on the Syrian border on Sunday and, according to a Syrian news agency, killed...
Jun 06, 2011
Comment
O’Bama vs. Netanyahoo
Comment about President Obama and diplomatic relations in the Middle East…
Jun 06, 2011
Going Forth Dept.
Pomp and Circumstance
Talk story about New School honorary-degree recipients, including Tony Kushner and Frank Rich…
Jun 06, 2011
Annals of National Security
Iran and the Bomb
ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY about whether Iran’s nuclear program is being exaggerated. Is Iran actively trying to develop nuclear weapons? Members of the Obama Administration often talk as if this were a foregone conclusion, as did their predecessors under George W. Bush. There’s a large body of evidence, however, including…
May 26, 2011
Blog: News Desk
To-Do List: Crossings and Migrations
To know: Serbian police arrested a man said to be Ratko Mladić, who has been wanted by U.N. prosecutors for more than a decade for war crimes during the Bosnian civil war. Amid escalating...
May 30, 2011
Comment
The Syrian Problem
Comment about U.S. relations with Syria in the wake of the Arab Spring…
May 23, 2011
Blog: Ask the Author
Ask the Author Live: Steve Coll on Obama and the Middle East
In this week’s Comment, Steve Coll writes about the Obama Administration and the Middle East. He answered readers’ questions in a live chat. Read the transcript below....
May 20, 2011
Blog: News Desk
Political Scene: Obama’s Disappointing Speech
“Disappointing.” That was the general consensus on President Obama’s speech on the Middle East yesterday, which Steve Coll, Wendell Steavenson, and Hendrik Hertzberg discuss on this week’s Political Scene podcast. Steavenson, who is based...
May 20, 2011
Blog: News Desk
To-Do List: Israeli Borders and Buxom Strumpets
To know: President Obama will meet today with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who expressed anger yesterday over Obama’s endorsement of a Palestinian state determined by Israel’s pre-1967 borders. Former International Monetary Fund chief...
May 20, 2011
AUDIO
Obama, Israel, and the Arab Spring: Hendrik Hertzberg, Steve Coll, and Wendell Steavenson on the Political Scene: Audio
Steve Coll, Wendell Steavenson, and Hendrik Hertzberg on Obama, Israel, and the Arab Spring.
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