· Hurting Moderates, Helping Militants
The New York Times
May 5, 2011
Punishing Palestinians for achieving national reconciliation aids Gaza's Salafi-Jihadis.
· Our Man in Palestine
The New York Review of Books
October 14, 2010 Issue
The American mission to build up West Bank security forces led by Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad.
· Nuke and Dagger
Tablet Magazine
January 21, 2010
A brief history of spies, plots, and mysterious deaths surrounding Iran’s nuclear program.
· Eastern Promises
The New Republic
September 9, 2009 Issue
The Guantánamo detainees we sent to Albania.
· Crime and Punishment in Albania's Elections
Slate
September 2, 2009
Tirana's painting, rapping, basketball-dunking mayor calls a foul.
Albania, the Muslim World's Most Pro-American State, pt. I.
· The Muslim World's Most Tolerant Nation
Slate
September 3, 2009
The Muslim world's most tolerant nation is also its most secular.
Albania, the Muslim World's Most Pro-American State, pt. II.
· America's 51st State
Slate
September 4, 2009
Why do Albanians love George W. Bush?
Albania, the Muslim World's Most Pro-American State, pt. III.
· Truth or Dare
GQ
July 2009
A mentor imprisoned.
· Lockerbie
US News & World Report
January 2, 2009
Twenty years later, still unsolved.
· Price we paid for JFK's inexperience
The Boston Globe
July 24, 2008
A response to JFK adviser Ted Sorensen.
· Kennedy Talked, Khrushchev Triumphed
The New York Times
May 22, 2008
The risks of negotiation.
· Persian Aversion
Commentary
March 2008
What lies at the heart of the conflict between Israel and Iran?
· Specters of al Qaida?
The Jerusalem Post
November 23, 2007
On November 20, 1979, several hundred armed rebels laid siege to the holiest place in Islam, the Grand Mosque of Mecca.
· How The Reagan Administration Taught Iran the Wrong Lessons
Middle East Review of International Affairs
June 2007
Reagan's search for Iranian moderates.
· A Loss of Trust
The Jerusalem Post
May 25, 2007
The killing of collaborators in Palestinian society.
· Back To Reality
The Jerusalem Post
December 20, 2006
Paul Verhoeven’s Black Book, about a young Jewish woman who joins the Dutch Resistance during World War II only to fall in love with the SS officer on whom she had been spying.
· Life Outside the Tribe
The Jerusalem Post
December 10, 2006
David Mamet’s plea for his assimilationist brethren to rejoin the tribe and religion they have forsaken.
· Do We Understand Each Other?
The Jerusalem Post
November 3, 2006
Jeffrey Goldberg’s journey from zealous Long Island Zionist to embittered Israeli prison guard.
· A Foul Ritual
The Jerusalem Post
September 29, 2006
A view of the conflict over the chicken-slaughtering ritual known as kapparot.