Kai Bird is the director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography. He was an Assistant Editor at The Nation from 1978-82 and later a columnist. In 2006 he won the Pulitzer Prize with Martin J. Sherwin for their biography, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer—the inspiration for Christopher Nolan’s forthcoming feature, Oppenheimer.
Two decades ago, nearly one-sixth of the population was forcibly expelled. How did King Wangchuck escape any real censure?
To break through the impasse in the Middle East, Obama must go to Jerusalem.