Commentary

And so we should probably have expected nothing less (or nothing more) in Michael Lind's Salon essay explaining why he has moved away from the American right. But conservatives shouldn't be deterred by the headline, “Right-wing dreams of demented ...

Authors Peter Bergen and Jennifer Rowland write: “The estimated civilian death rate in U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan has declined dramatically since 2008, when it was at its peak of almost 50 percent. Today, for the first time, the estimated civilian death rate is ...

That the president is listening to people like Peter Beinart, David Remnick and Joe Klein tells us all we need to know about how long the Jewish charm offensive will last after a November victory for the Democrats. In Obama's defense, it must be ...

Because there was a popular theory advanced by foreign policy analysts like Peter Bergen, which (in 2007) sounded like this: America''s most formidable foe– once practically dead– is back. This is one of the most historically significant legacies of ...

In today's New York Times, terrorism expert Peter Bergen, whose work I respect, presents an image of Barack Obama as he would like to be presented to the electorate–as a “warrior-in-chief” who has turned out to be far more hawkish than either liberal ...

It pitted, for the motion, Palestinian legislator Mustafa Barghouthi and the New America Foundation and J Street's Daniel Levy against Israeli diplomat Dore Gold and Miller. The whole debate is worth watching, which can be done at Intelligence ...

Written by Dana Goldstein, a fellow at both The Nation Institute and the New America Foundation, it is not notable for any of its content, which is no more than a recitation of the usual “young Jews are so moved by the Palestinian plight that they ...

“Pakistan has a pretty legitimate” case, said Peter Bergen, a national security expert and director of the New America Foundation, a non-partisan Washington think tank. “It doesn't really matter how valid the goal is. That doesn't change the fact that ...

This week's New Yorker has a riveting account by freelance journalist Nicholas Schmidle of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Reading it, I was reminded of this hilarious satirical video which has “The Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden” bragging ...