Peter Beinart

 Analysis of the Israel-Hamas war, and 'Jewish Hope for Palestinian Liberation.'

Democratic Socialists insist their politics are different from the loaded ideology of the 20th century, but skeptics remain.

Peter Beinart on Speaker Pelosi's strategy for "winning" the shutdown.

New York Times columnist Thomas Edsall says the appearance of a united liberal pro-immigrant front could just be a facade, as whites begin to feel racially threatened by other groups.

Why there are no longer dissenting voices on immigration in the Democratic Party.

Antifa, short for “anti-fascist,” is a loosely organized, wide amalgamation of leftist activists whose expressed purpose is to stand up against white supremacy and Nazism. 

Fifty prominent Republican national security officials have taken a strong stand against Trump earlier this week, but will other Republicans continue to support the nominee? 

Sen. Schumer has been described as the most influential Jewish politician in Congress, but that doesn't mean his opposition to the Iran nuclear deal will jeopardize it. 

Gaza has been plagued by conflict for decades. And for people living in the Gaza Strip, one of the most densely packed places on Earth, occupation and confrontation are just troubles ...

The Boston bombing has become a Rorschach blot for the media, who have tied it to everything from immigration to welfare to national security. Bob talks to The Daily Beast's Peter Beinart about the media and the culture's desire to impose meaning on tragedy.

In his new book, The Crisis of Zionism, Peter Beinart, says the deepening Israeli occupation of the West Bank threatens Israeli democracy. And in the US, the failure of American Jewish organizations to address it threatens Zionism itself. Peter Beinart is a senior political writer for The Daily Beast and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.

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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, senior fellow at the New America Foundation, and author of The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, talks about the case of Dominique Strauss-Kahn and how it has developed, both within the media and within the legal system. Jim Dwyer, New York columnist for The New York Times, joins him for the conversation.

There will always be terrible, terrible things that happen in the world and it is way beyond America's capacity to stop all of them, particularly in a military sense. So the real worl...

Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, senior fellow at the New America Foundation, and author of The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, talks about President Obama's speech last night on Libya and on what the future of American military intervention might be.

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Peter Beinart, The Daily Beast and Time Magazine contributor, looks at examples of "over-reaching" in U.S. foreign policy in his new book The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris.

A day after Israeli naval commandoes lauched an attack on a flotilla of ships carrying aid to the Gaza strip, Israel is still facing widespread international condemnation. Israel defended the move Monday, saying activists aboard the ships attacked the Israeli soldiers first with guns, knives and axes.