• No image

    Targeted Killings

    Jan 23, 2013 05:17 PM EDT

    ... administration's expansion of targeted killings, including overseeing the process by which suspected militants and terrorists are selected for strikes. Related Resources: In the Atlantic, Daniel Byman and Benjamin Wittes have sketched out a hypothetical decision tree that the White House may use to determine whether a suspected terrorist is ...

  • No image

    Honoring the Sandy Hook Shooting Victims

    Dec 17, 2012 11:51 PM EDT

    ... in silence, are the names of the 27 victims. Twenty-five photographs were available -- first, the children in alphabetical order. --- Charlotte Bacon, 6 years old Daniel Barden, 7 years old Olivia Engel, 6 years old Josephine Gay, 7 years old Ana Marquez-Greene, 6 years old Dylan Hockley, 6 years ...

  • No image

    2012 MacArthur Fellows Are 'Pure Genius'

    Oct 02, 2012 05:23 PM EDT

    ... understanding of civil rights. He is the author of "The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South." Medical Sciences Benjamin Warf, pediatric neurosurgeon Warf's work focuses on the treatment of intra-cranial diseases in young children, with a particular focus on hydrocephalus, also ...

  • No image

    In Israel, Protesters Decry Rising Cost of Living

    Aug 19, 2011 03:14 PM EDT

    ... a healthy clip and the Shekel, Israel's currency, becoming one of the world's strongest. "The cost of living in Israel is horrendous," said Daniel Levy, a senior fellow and director of the Middle East Policy Initiative at the New America Foundation. "It's hellishly expensive compared to what ...

  • No image

    On Thursday's NewsHour...

    Sep 02, 2010 08:06 PM EDT

    ... deputy director of the National Hurricane Center, Ed Rappaport, for the latest developments. MIDDLE EAST PEACE TALKS | Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to more peace discussions in the future in Thursday's meeting in Washington. Judy Woodruff gets two views from Daniel Levy, director ...

  • No image

    As Mideast Peace Talks Start, D.C. Think Tanks Overfloweth With Analysis

    Sep 01, 2010 10:01 PM EDT

    ... American to varying degrees of Arab and Palestinian nationalism. And that chasm of differing views and between optimists and pessimists is wide indeed. For instance, Daniel Levy of the New America Foundation, and a former Israeli negotiator, wrote: "Much of the pessimism surrounding this week's peace summitry derives from ...

  • No image

    Can Genes Be Patented? Ruling Reignites Debate

    Apr 02, 2010 04:00 AM EDT

    ... federal judge agreed with the plaintiffs in a ruling that could have a broad impact on future genetic research. Here to discuss the case are Daniel Ravicher, executive director of the Public Patent Foundation at the Benjamin Cardozo School of law. The foundation was one of the plaintiffs in the ...

  • No image

    Mideast Political Uncertainty Stymies Peace Process

    Nov 13, 2009 10:30 PM EDT

    ... being built. The understanding did not cover East Jerusalem. "The Americans have told us that's the best we can get from [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu," Erekat said. He added that American officials have told him that while they consider settlements to be illegitimate, they "tried their best" to ...

  • No image

    Israel's Next Top Diplomat Has History of Ruffling Feathers

    Mar 20, 2009 08:30 PM EDT

    Israel's anticipated next top diplomat, Avigdor Lieberman, has raised some ire in the international community for his ultra-nationalist stances, which analysts say might have far-reaching consequences on Israel's relations with the rest of the world.

  • No image

    Other News: Geithner Makes TARP Changes; 4 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq

    Feb 09, 2009 11:25 PM EDT

    Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner finalized a plan outlining changes to the TARP plan Congress passed last year, and four U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq Monday in a suicide car bombing.