Roger Cohen

Late Returns: One More Reason For Chris Christie To Stay Home In 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Candidate Pledges, 2012 Speculation, 2012 Speculatron, Fearmongering, Chris Christie, Michele Bachmann 2012, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Mitch Daniels, Wall Street Donors, Bernie Madoff, Barack Obama, Rick Perry, 2012, Video, Ed Koch, Michele Bachmann, Pledges, Wall Street, 2012 Election, Frank Gaffney, Roger Cohen, Mitt Romney 2012, Rick Perry 2012, Sharia Panic, Media Criticism, Barack Obama 2012, Politics News

There's been a lot of discussion about the many reasons why Chris Christie and the GOP primary electorate wouldn't exactly see eye-to-eye, and that's ...

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Cohen's Hallucinations in The New York Times

Hussain Abdul-Hussain | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Syria, Saad Hariri, Roger Cohen, Hussain Abdul-Hussain, The New York Times, Special Tribunal for Lebanon, Walid Jumblatt, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Justice, Rafik Hariri, Beirut, World News

There is nothing worse than a shallow columnist pontificating about what should and should not happen in a country he discovered only last week.

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Rethinking Peter Beinart's Israel Article

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jews, Israeli Settlements, The New Yorker, Orthodox Jews, Steve Rosen, New York Review of Books, Wall Street Journal, Aipac, Peter Beinart, 92y, George Packer, Bret Stephens, Roger Cohen, Israel, American Jews, Obama Israel, Politics News

An impressive group of thinkers gathered on Tuesday night at the 92nd St. Y to debate the topic of "Has the American Jewish Establishment Failed Young Jews?"

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Thank You, Class of 2008

Chris Campbell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Don't Ask Don't Tell, Mid-Term Elections, Democratic Congress, Economic Stimulus Package, Unemployment, 99 Weeks, Roger Cohen, COBRA Legislation, Health Care Reform, C-Span, New York Times, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News

When Barack Obama won the presidency and Democrats took firm holds of both Houses for the first time in a decade, my obsessive interest in politics be...

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Regime Change Redux? Reading Tom Friedman in Sao Paulo

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Turkey, Thomas Friedman, Roger Cohen, Brazil, New York Times, Iran, Obama, Iran Nuclear Program, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, Barack Obama, World News

In a recent Op-Ed, Friedman claims that Iran refuses to put its (low-enriched) uranium stockpile under IAEA inspection, but this assertion is verifiably false -- and the New York Times should publish a correction.

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Sexy New Drama of Ideas

Erica Abeel | Posted 02.11.2010

Read More: Drama of Ideas, John Donvan, Roger Cohen, Itamar Rabinovich, ABC News, Titans of Finance, Rashid Khalidi, Stuart Eizenstat, Robert Rosenkranz, U.S. Policy Toward Israel, Iq2us, Politics News

When was the last time you got someone to change their mind about a challenging issue?

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Free Luxury: Help The Rich Learn To Live Like Us

Julia Moulden | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: New Radicals, Luxury, Roger Cohen, Julia Moulden, Happiness, Healthy Living News

It's just plain crazy to spend my life chasing money so I can buy more stuff. Instead, I'm pursuing what I think of as free luxuries. I share this list as a public service.

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Egyptian Minister Forced to Apologize for Threatening to Burn Books About Israel

Joseph Freeman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elie Wiesel, Farouk Hosny, New York Times, Unesco, Bernard Henri Levy, Serena Williams, Joe Wilson, Kanye West, Egypt, Roger Cohen, World News

Hosny publicly said that he would burn all the books in Alexandria's library that had anything to do with Israel. He also called Israeli culture "racist."

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Twitter Is Now All I Have

Mahasti Afshar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Khomeini, Social Media, Iran, Twitter, Twitter Iran, Roger Cohen, Media News

As someone who since June has been witnessing the events in Iran virtually, I can vouch that the crisis as reported on Twitter and Facebook, YouTube and Flikr and iReports is anything but opaque.

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Bearing Witness 2.0: You Can't Spin 10,000 Tweets and Camera Phone Uploads

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Twitter, Social Networking, Iran Twitter, Roger Cohen, Iran, Media, China Riots, China, Bob Woodward, Iran Uprising, China Media, Bill Keller, Chinese Censorship, Media News

When deadly riots broke out in China last week, the Chinese government sprang into message control mode. It choked off the Internet, blocked Twitter, and deleted updates and videos from social networking sites. At the same time, it invited foreign journalists to take a tour of the area. The Chinese have clearly learned the lessons of Iran. READ MORE Shattering the Right vs. Left Prism Once Again: The Wall Street Journal Goes After Goldman and the Bank Bailout Even the capitalist Bible is taking shots at Wall Street darling Goldman Sachs. We've now reached the point where the only people defending the administration's Wall Street policies are the people benefiting from them -- or their good friends, Tim Geithner and Larry Summers. READ MORE

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Obama Should Remember James Baker When In Cairo: Roger Cohen

nytimes.com | ROGER COHEN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Mideast Trip, Cairo, Egypt, Roger Cohen, Obama Egypt, Obama Cairo, Roger Cohen Obama, James Baker, World News

NEW YORK -- I hope President Obama has been reading James Baker in preparation for his speech Thursday to the Muslim world. It was in the time of the ...

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Noonology

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Law, Harry Reid, Peggy Noonan, Barack Obama, Torture Memos, Roger Cohen, Peggy-Noonan-Mysterious, Politics News

Sweeping away the government's crimes is no longer the behavior of apologist sycophants. It's called Noonology, and now you can try it at home!

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Roger Cohen: Only By Ignoring Wrongdoing Can We Preserve The Republic

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Times, Media Criticism, Torture Memos, Roger Cohen, Torture, Eat the Press, Media News

I had to figure that Roger Cohen, writing in this morning's New York Times, was going to lose me the minute he began: Language is lethal. The Bush ad...

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'Israel Cries Wolf' On Iranian Nukes: Cohen

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Netanyahu Iran, Netanyahu Iran War, Roger Cohen, Foreign Affairs, Israel Iran Strike Video, Benjamin Netanyahu, Obama Israel Iran, Israel, Israel Iran, Barack Obama, Binyamin Netanyahu, Advocacy, World News

"Iran is the center of terrorism, fundamentalism and subversion and is in my view more dangerous than Nazism, because Hitler did not possess a nuclear...

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Paris Toujours: A Reply to Roger Cohen

Joan Z. Shore | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paris, France, Urban Growth, Cities, Urban Planning, Roger Cohen, World News

It's true that Paris has changed. Evolved, I'd say. But it is trying, in some ways, to stop the alluring march of "progress."

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Beirut Nostalgia

Haim Watzman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israel, Lebanon, Yehuda Ben-Meir, Roger Cohen, Beirut, Beirut Lebanon, War, New York Times, Hezbollah, Politics News

We had barely slept for two nights and were caked with the mud stirred up by a late-winter downpour. Within a few minutes we threw our gear together and lugged it into the choppers that flew us to Tyre.

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Everybody's Getting A Hot Piece Of The McCain Story

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John McCain, Iseman McCain, Roger Cohen, New York Times, New York Times McCain, Vicki Iseman, McCain Lobbyist Scandal, McCain Lobbyist Affair, Politics News

Roger Cohen's up in the New York Times opinion pages today, working through the disconnect between the sexual mores of France and the United States, e...

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