Roundup: Media's Take

Bjørn Lomborg: A Roadmap for the Planet

Bjørn Lomborg is an adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School.

James C. Goodale: WikiLeaks: Pentagon Papers Injustice Deja Vu

James C. Goodale, counsel for the The New York Times in the Pentagon Papers case, is writing a book, Fighting for the Press: Why the Pentagon Papers Case Still Matters, and is co-producer of the TV program Digital Age on Channel 25 in New York City.Just in time to spoil the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the publication of the Pentagon Papers, the Obama Justice Department is trying to do what Richard Nixon couldn't: indict a media organization.

Tim Rutten: Old-Time Religion, Today's Politics

Tim Rutten is a columnist for the LA Times.In the midst of a hotly contested presidential election a little more than half a century ago, John Kennedy went to Houston to give the most important speech of his campaign.

Gregory Rodriguez: A Political History Lesson

Gregory Rodriguez, founder and executive director of Zócalo Public Square in Los Angeles, is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and founding director of the Center for Social Cohesion at Arizona State University.

John Yemma: After Afghanistan: Will Americans Forget It?

John Yemma is the editor of The Christian Science Monitor.Newspaper editors once had a name for complicated dispatches from the far reaches of the globe. They would glare from under their eyeshades and harrumph about “Afghanistanisms.”What they meant was that a newspaper should serve its local community first and foremost, not wring its hands about tribal intrigue in a remote and mystifying land.

Jon Gensler: Blair Mountain II: The New Battle over Coal Mining in West Virginia

Jon Gensler is a native of Huntington, W.Va, and is a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point, MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and the

Farzaneh Milani: Saudi Arabia’s Freedom Riders

Farzaneh Milani, chairwoman of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia, is the author of “Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement.”THE Arab Spring is inching its way into Saudi Arabia — in the cars of fully veiled drivers.

Stephen M. Kohn: The Whistle-Blowers of 1777

Stephen M. Kohn is the executive director of the National Whistleblowers Center and the author of “The Whistleblower’s Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Doing What’s Right and Protecting Yourself.”FORTY years ago today, The New York Times began publishing the Pentagon Papers, a seminal moment not only for freedom of the press but also for the role of whistle-blowers — like Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the papers to expose the mishandling of the war in Vietnam — in defending our democracy.

Christopher Caldwell: Lessons from Kosovo for Nato in Libya

The writer is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard. This weekend marks a curious anniversary. Twelve years ago, Nato’s air war to wrest the province of Kosovo from Serbia’s control ended after almost three months.

James A. Baker III and Lee H. Hamilton: Breaking the War Powers Stalemate

James A. Baker III was secretary of state from 1989 to 1992. Lee H. Hamilton is a former Democratic representative from Indiana who chaired the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Like Sarah Palin, Many of Us Don't Know U.S. History

Leonard Pitts Jr., winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, is a columnist for the Miami Herald....Where history is concerned, this is fast becoming a nation of ignoramuses and amnesiacs.

Larry Gross: Reflections on Israel: From Idealism to Ethnic Cleansing

Larry Gross is the director of USC’s Annenberg School for Communication, one of the founders of queer studies and a scholar of art, media, and the portrayal of minorities.

Jonathan Aitken: The Dark Side of the Arab Spring

Jonathan Aitken, The American Spectator's High Spirits columnist, is most recently author of John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace (Crossway Books). His biographies include Charles W. Colson: A Life Redeemed (Doubleday) and Nixon: A Life, now available in a new paperback edition (Regnery). The Arab spring is fast becoming a winter of discontent for Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East. In Washington the first stirrings of protest were hailed as a breakthrough for democracy.

Ray Takeyh: A Post-American Day Dawns in the Mideast

Ray Takeyh is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Even as Washington struggles to come to terms with the Arab Spring, the Middle East is imperceptibly moving to a post-American era. Both allies and adversaries in the region are growing largely indifferent to America’s prohibitions.

Clyde Prestowitz: Kissinger in China: Triumph or Disaster?

Clyde Prestowitz is the president of the Economic Strategy Institute and writes on the global economy for FP.

Henry A. Kissinger: How to Negotiate Afghan Exit

Henry A.

Walter Shapiro: The Real McCoy

Walter Shapiro is a special correspondent for The New Republic.

Peter Van Buren: Occupying Iraq, State Department-Style

Peter Van Buren spent a year in Iraq as a State Department Foreign Service Officer serving as Team Leader for two Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs). Now in Washington, he writes about Iraq and the Middle East at his blog, We Meant Well

Roger Cohen: The Spirit That Binds

Roger Cohen is a columnist for the NYT.VENICE — The United States is no longer interested in Europe per se. That’s not a bad thing. It reflects the fact that Europe is whole, free and at peace....The lesson of Venice is that history moves on. Great decisions affecting far-flung lands were once taken where the idle now gaze at roseate facades and wander over stones smoothed by centuries. After the doges came the dolce vita. After statecraft came style, Flaubert’s “discharge from a deeper wound.”...

Michael Lind: The Case Against "American Exceptionalism"

Michael Lind is Policy Director of the Economic Growth Program at the New America Foundation and is the author of "The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution."