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Robert Dreyfuss

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Robert Dreyfuss

Robert Dreyfuss

Contributing Editor

Robert Dreyfuss, a Nation contributing editor, is an investigative journalist in Alexandria, Virginia, specializing in politics and national security. He is the author of Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam and is a frequent contributor to Rolling Stone, The American Prospect and Mother Jones.

Articles

News and Features

Will Obama make good on his promise to end the war in Iraq?

A new and growing Sunni resistance movement in Iraq could shatter the false sense of post-surge calm--and it might get Russian support.

He's no George W. Bush, but will Obama's foreign policy bring us back to the days of the bipartisan, establishment consensus?

Iranians' attitudes toward Ahmadinejad range from sullen tolerance to bitter hostility.

The Nobel Prize-winning activist says US threats, regime-change rhetoric and efforts to promote democracy only give Iran's leaders an excuse to intensify repression.

The latest round of Iraq's Shiite vs. Shiite civil war was to have been Bush's defining moment. The result: utter humiliation for the US and the Iraqi government.

The GOP nominee favors unilateralism and "rogue state rollback."

Maybe. But Iraqis mistrust Iran as much as they do the United States.

An emerging Sunni-Shiite coalition could change the face of Iraq--if the
United States steps back and gets out of the way.

Across the political spectrum in Iraq, a nationalistic bloc is emerging to challenge the Kurdish and Shiite separatists who have held sway under US tutelage.

Blogs

Fighting for nothing, and destroying countries in the process, costs a lot.
Fixing the CIA is a tall order, but it can be done.
And there's progress in US-Russia nuclear talks.
Unchecked use of drones is counterproductive, says the retired Marine general who is close to Obama.
The invasion chorus is singing again—and making unfounded claims that forces in the conflict have used chemical weapons.
The White House’s placating of Netanyahu won't make talks with Iran any easier.
Our contributors reflect on the legacy of the invasion and the destruction, and disillusionment, that followed.
By placating Israel’s hawks, the president is making the Iran he wants less likely.