Peter Beinart

Since the Democrats won control of Congress last fall, they've been besieged with warnings against acting too aggressively on Iraq. Such "moves carry clear risks for a party that suffered politically for pushing to end an unpopular war in Vietnam," suggested the Washington Post in January. And now that Nancy...

Hooray for Mark Malloch Brown. The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General has finally done what Democratic politicians should have long ago: he has stood up to the right's mindless UN-bashing. The Bush administration says it wants to see the institution reformed. And it badly needs to be -- for our sake...

One of the critical differences between the liberal and conservative foreign policy traditions is their willingness to accept that America is capable of evil. For conservatives -- as I write in my new book, The Good Fight: Why Liberals--and Only Liberals--Can Win the War on Terror and Make America...

In her post about Afghanistan, Arianna ends by saying that we need to remember the problems there the "next time the president waxes lyrical about spreading democracy and liberty across the globe."

But there's something else we need to remember -- something I write about in my book,...