Craig Unger is the New York Times bestselling author of House of Bush, House of Saud. A contributing editor to Vanity Fair, he is a Fellow at the Center on Law and Security at NYU’s School of Law. He has just published his latest book, The Fall of the House of Bush: The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils America’s Future (Scribner). For more about the book, go to www.craigunger.com.

Blog Entries by Craig Unger

The Secret Sex Fantasy of Giuliani's Guru

Posted December 25, 2007 | 11:20 PM (EST)


There are a number of reasons behind Rudy Giuliani's sinking political fortunes, but one person who may bear considerable responsibility for them is Giuliani's senior foreign policy adviser, Norman Podhoretz.

One of the founding fathers of neoconservativism, Podhoretz is a hardline Iran hawk who carefully crafted a position that...

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Onward Christian Soldiers

Posted December 18, 2007 | 05:51 PM (EST)


Surprise, surprise. According to the December 17 Rasmussen poll, former Baptist preacher Mike Huckabee is now leading the Republican field, beating out Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson and John McCain, faux evangelicals all.

How can a poorly funded, marginal candidate possibly vault to the front of the pack...

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The Fool on the Hill

Posted December 13, 2007 | 10:17 AM (EST)


Now that Mike Huckabee has joined the top tier of Republican candidates, it's worth taking a closer look at one of his chief evangelical supporters, Tim LaHaye, the bestselling Rapturite co-author of the Left Behind series (63 million copies sold!).

As it happens, in researching my new book The Fall...

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A Failure of Intelligence

Posted December 9, 2007 | 06:44 PM (EST)


Intelligence failures, intelligence failures. The United States spends more than $40 billion a year on intelligence, but, gosh darn it, we just can't seem to get it right. The latest fiasco, of course, concerns the now infamous National Intelligence Estimate about Iran which concludes that Iran abandoned its nuclear weapons...

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