Peter Beinart is a contributing editor at The Atlantic and National Journal, an associate professor of journalism and political science at the City University of New York, and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
The presidential candidate's remarks on homosexuality are more likely to help than hurt his political aspirations.
Critics of a nuclear deal claim the regime in Tehran is fanatical. Where's their evidence?
A more combative approach may weaken, and not strengthen, our global standing.
When Rudy Giuliani attacks Obama's loyalty, he's using a tactic pioneered against Catholics like JFK.
By avoiding the phrase "radical Islam," the president may be making a statement about the nature of terrorism itself.
Bush, like his father and older brother, wants to make the world safe for commerce. It's not a message GOP primary voters are likely to embrace.
Will conservatives confront rising anti-Muslim rhetoric in the Republican Party?
Will the sight of the former Florida governor raking in cash, and crowding out his rivals, convince Republicans of the need for campaign-finance reform?
The presidential candidate insists that she is both a trailblazer and a traditionalist, a case her new role as a grandmother helps her make more convincingly.
Critics insist that Obama's reluctance to say so robs the struggle of moral clarity, but such attacks reflect a muddled understanding of the fight.
The Louisiana governor wants Christians to stand apart from secular society, but condemns Muslims who do the same.
The Wisconsin governor concedes nothing to his critics, and Republican voters are embracing his message.
The most important words in Obama's speech, and in the Republican responses, were the ones hardly uttered at all.
This year, Obama's domestic-policy narrative reached its crescendo, while his foreign-policy narrative quietly collapsed.
In asserting they do, Jeb Bush's new PAC seems to contradict conservative catechism—and shows the challenge he faces as a presidential contender.
Terrorists and dictators have long used violence to blackmail democratic governments. Now they're doing the same against magazines and movie studios.
The senator's opposition to restoring diplomatic relations with Havana reflects his failure to evolve from the sympathies of an older generation.
She's more like the Rand Paul of the left.
Remember when pundits loved the president? The conditions are right for that old feeling to return.
A country, like a person, is what it does.