Jeffrey Goldberg
Jeffrey Goldberg is a Bloomberg View columnist appearing on Tuesdays. A national correspondent for the Atlantic, he is the author of "Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror." He is a winner of the National Magazine Award for reporting.
A former Washington correspondent and Middle East correspondent for the New Yorker, Goldberg began his career at the Washington Post. He later wrote a column for the Jerusalem Post; covered the Mafia for New York Magazine; and wrote for several years for the New York Times Magazine. He has been public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and a Fellow of the Jerusalem Foundation. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and now lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and three children.
The Jerusalem Post has just published its annual ranking of the world’s 50 most influential Jews, and I’m sorry but also... READ MORE
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So it turns out that Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and, before a group of leading Senate... READ MORE
Syria’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad, isn’t the only leader who is crossing “red lines” these days. U.S. President Barack... READ MORE
So many red lines, so little time. READ MORE
Here is the genius of Qatar, the peanut-sized Persian Gulf state that provides material support to Hamas, the Muslim... READ MORE
Well, Bashar, now you’ve done it. We’ve seen that killing tens of thousands of your fellow Syrians with conventional... READ MORE
A few days ago, the chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Benny Gantz, pushed back against the idea -- which has... READ MORE
The Boston Marathon bombing is a quick-moving story (a frenetic one, if you’re following on Twitter). And the facts, as... READ MORE
Several months ago, not long before the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, I asked Dan Gross, the president of the Brady... READ MORE