Toronto Star

The revelations support the opinion of bin Laden chronicler, Peter Bergen, who has written that bin Laden ran Al Qaeda like a dictatorship. In a recent TIME magazine article he notes that not only did bin Laden require his followers to take a personal ...

11 was to spur a very dramatic increase in the footprint of the American empire, contributing to a very serious case of 'imperial overstretch,'” says Peter Beinart of the New America Foundation, author of The Icarus Syndrome. To carry out both wars, ...

Bin Laden on a LazyBoy watching footage clearly was intended to undercut his image,” said New American Foundation's Peter Bergen, who has been chronicling bin Laden's life since interviewing him in the late 1990s. Winning “hearts and minds” has always ...

... in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when we were frequently detained and threatened with visa non-renewal if we did not behave,” says Rebecca Mackinnon, a former CNN journalist, who is now senior fellow at the Boston-based New America Foundation. ...

“The sentiment I hear is that foreign intervention isn't good, but (Moammar) Gadhafi staying in power and creating a precedent for crushing democratic movements would be worse,” says Amjad Atallah, co-director of the Middle East task force at the New ...

Parag Khanna argues in his new book that the world has entered a new Middle Ages which could give rise to a kind of enlightened colonialism. first thing to know about Parag Khanna is that, as senior research fellow with the New America Foundation, ...

“I think there is every reason to believe that the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty will hold,” says Daniel Levy of the New America Foundation, a former adviser to Israel's Mideast peace negotiations. And, he added, Israel's main concern is “more about a ...

... Not a good time then for a book titled The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of the Internet. But, says author Evgeny Morozov wearily, that’s exactly why it needed to be written. Afflicted by a bad cold and some tetchy reviews, the Belarusian-born author is fed up to the back teeth with hearing that he’s an anti-web Luddite and the Grinch Who Stole the Revolution. ...

... (an average of more than 11 new films every day),” writes media analyst and Columbia University law professor Tim Wu in his new book, The Master Switch. ...

Writing in The New Yorker, author Steve Coll mused that if he could start life over as a political science doctoral candidate, he would research the ...