David Shribman

1 week ago | jewishjournal.org | David Shribman

Last week’s Israeli assault on Iran, and the response from Tehran, add a new dimension of complexity – and a new depth of peril – to the Middle East struggle that seems never to end and, apparently, never to contract. The new burst of Middle East combat adds new danger for both Iran and Israel, poses fresh questions for Donald Trump and American military and diplomatic strategists, and provides new shape to the ever-changing, ever-perplexing, ever-broadening power calculus in the Middle East.

1 week ago | post-gazette.com | David Shribman

For days Donald Trump — impetuous, intuitive, instinctive, but not known for introspection — grappled with the path forward in Iran, and with his historical legacy. Would he unleash the GBU-57 bunker-buster to penetrate the mountain covering the vital elements of Iran’s nuclear program, thereby allying himself more closely to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and risk drawing the United States into a wider war?

1 week ago | normantranscript.com | David Shribman

For days, Donald Trump -- impetuous, intuitive, instinctive, but not known for introspection -- grappled with the path forward in Iran, and with his historical legacy. Would he unleash the GBU-57 bunker-buster to penetrate the mountain covering the vital elements of Iran's nuclear program, thereby allying himself more closely to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and risk drawing the United States into a wider war?

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | David Shribman

For more than a decade, if you were interested in the power of American presidents to offer clemency — and in truth, besides Gerald Ford’s 1974 pardon of Richard Nixon and a handful of others, the topic had infinitesimal interest outside the country’s criminal class — you might pick up a brisk little scholarly book issued by the University Press of Kansas A contemporary reader who ventures into this volume, “The Presidential Pardon Power,” will find the fourth paragraph of the Introduction...

1 week ago | theglobeandmail.com | David Shribman