Leslie Gelb, who died August 31 at the age of 82, was a high-ranking strategist for American imperialism and a diplomatic correspondent and foreign policy columnist for the New York Times, moving back ...

NEW YORK — Leslie Gelb, who covered government and world affairs as a correspondent, editor and columnist for the New York Times, died Saturday. He was 82. Gelb’s wife, Judith, told the newspaper he ...

The Wise Men were high-born WASPs of the past century who went to the best schools and joined the most exclusive clubs and assumed top positions in law, banking, and government as naturally as if ...

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Nine years into the war in Afghanistan, there are conflicting reports of talks between President Hamid Karzai and Taliban leaders. But can the West trust the Karzai government — or the Taliban? The ...

Alex Chadwick talks to Leslie Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City. Gelb a long-time foreign policy analyst, talks about the effectiveness of all four of ...

And we have one more perspective on Iraq this morning from Leslie Gelb. He's a longtime journalist and now president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations. He spent 10 days recently talking to ...

A former New York Times reporter who won the Pulitzer Prize is disputing the implication made in one of Hillary Clinton’s emails released this week that he promised the former secretary of state veto ...

Scorcho! When an establishment icon like Leslie Gelb, formerly of the New York Times and Council on Foreign Relations, calls for clearing out the White House staff, you know a presidency is in trouble ...