Laura Rozen
By Laura Rozen
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Opinion What Iran Leader’s ‘Shana Tova’ Tweet Really Means
President Obama has now confirmed that he has indeed exchanged letters with Iran’s new president, Hassan Rowhani. It is but one of a flurry of recent signals that the United States and Iran are considering direct talks in an effort to see if they can diplomatically resolve concerns over Iran’s nuclear program. Asked by George…
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Opinion Will Iran’s New President Defuse the Nuclear Crisis?
With Syria peace talks on hold, and John Kerry’s efforts to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations uncertain, the most positive development to emerge from the Middle East this summer may be the surprise election of Hassan Rowhani as Iran’s next president. Even as Washington takes a cautious, wait-and-see attitude to prospects for a nuclear deal under…
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Opinion Justice for Dzokhar Tsarnaev — and the Rest of Us
‘Mazel Tov,” my father wrote in an email to me. “May his client lose and receive a death sentence.” The paternal congratulations and sentiment were in response to my telling him that an old friend working as a federal defense attorney in Boston had been appointed by the judge to represent Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The 19-year-old…
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Opinion Chuck Hagel Failure May Haunt Hawks
Hawkish groups that sought to pre-emptively sink Chuck Hagel’s candidacy for secretary of defense may have been trying to teach President Obama and his supporters a lesson — but it seems they’re the ones who may look back at this episode as a cautionary tale. “You don’t want to wound the king,” Joseph Cirincione, president…
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Culture The Operator: The Double Life of a Military Strategist
There’s one thing Edward Luttwak wanted me to know, before he asked if I had a cell phone, and if so, could I turn it off and remove its battery, presumably if improbably so that he couldn’t be traced. We were sitting in his office library in his family’s sprawling Victorian home in suburban Chevy…
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