Articles

• Robert Ames and the CIA's History of Back-channel talks with 'the bad guys'

  2014-11-20

  Kai Bird Op Ed in LA Times

  
  

• Robert Oppenheimer & the "Screwdriver Report"

  2014-09-16

  NEW YORK In the spring of 1946, J. Robert Oppenheimer was asked in a closed congressional hearing room whether three or four men couldn't smuggle units of an atomic bomb into New York and "blow up the whole city.

  
  

• Would JFK Have Left Vietnam: An Exchange in the NYRB

  2010-09-30

  In his essay “Mac Bundy Said He Was ‘All Wrong’” [NYR, June 10], William Pfaff claims that Gordon Goldstein’s book Lessons in Disaster:

  
  

• NY Times Op Ed: "Who Lives in Sheikh Jarrah?" April 30, 2010

  2010-04-30

  As a boy, I lived in Sheik Jarrah, a wealthy Arab neighborhood in East Jerusalem. Annexed by Israel in 1967 and now the subject of a conflict over property claims.