Hasan's alleged response was commensurate with the insults he suffered, the subtext of the coverage was that he was simply another traumatized victim of America's wars — and that his alleged actions should prompt us to offer a collective mea culpa. ...
Beneath the daily headlines from Tel Aviv and Tehran is an alternate universe of secure rooms where poker-faced men in army uniforms and open-necked shirts shape the future of the Middle East. Those whom I have interviewed or otherwise hung out with ...
THE ALBERGO HOTEL, on a quiet, narrow street in the wealthy Ashrafieh neighborhood of Beirut, is a perfect place to meet a spy. The name of the street is Abdel Wahab El Inglizi—Abdel Wahab the Englishman—perhaps for an Arab who adopted English manners. ...
Words are our main form of communication, and they carry the power to make us happy or sad, aggravated or content. How can something that has no actual material reality have such a powerful effect over us emotionally and physically? We need to realise ...
'Yes, sometimes I go into the room with my advisers and I start shouting. And then they say, 'And then what?'" The question hangs in the perfectly cooled air in Sa'ad Hariri's marble-floored sitting room, where Beirut appears as a sunlit abstraction ...
DAVID E. SANGER: Good evening. Welcome to the new beautiful digs of the Council on Foreign Relations, a vast, vast improvement over the old, more cramped space. It's great to see so many here and so many old friends here. Tonight we thought we would ...
From the standpoint of international relations theory, the scariest thing about recent Israeli rhetoric is that an attack on Iran lines up quite well with Israel's rational interests as a superpower client. While Israeli bluster is clearly calculated ...
The single, blinding release of pure energy over Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, marked a startling and permanent break with our prior understandings of the visible world. Yet for more than sixty years the technology behind the explosion has ...
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. On one side of each slice of bread, spread butter evenly (as if you were making a grilled cheese). On the other side, spread mayonnaise evenly. Toss stuffing with beer to moisten. Stack turkey, cheese, bacon, stuffing and ...
On my way to Denver for what is being billed as the political speech of my lifetime, I am doing my best to open up a lotus-like space inside my head in which I can enjoy the pleasurable sensation that comes to lucky Ivy League meritocrats of a certain ...
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