Posts by Jacob Heilbrunn

With the exposure of Ben-Ami Kadish, 84, as an alleged Israeli spy, there is sure to be a fresh round of consternation in the United States about Israel’s past machinations. The Justice Department is charging in four conspiracy counts handed down Tuesday in New York that Kadish handed over a variety of documents, including some [...]

As the presidential campaigns head toward the Democratic and Republican conventions, the candidates are making new promises about how they’ll end the war in Iraq, revive the economy, fix the schools, end the threat of nuclear proliferation and get everyone else to either love (Barack Obama) or respect (John McCain) the United States. No matter [...]

In telling a Scottish newspaper that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is “a monster,” Samantha Power, who is a professor at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School and a columnist for “Time,” has become a victim of the very politics of personal destruction that Clinton is often accused of practicing and that Sen. Barack Obama has been [...]