By Steve Clemons

Good for her. Condi Rice has told Israel that it needs to take steps now to begin the post-Gaza process of returning other occupied territories to Palestinian control.

For the next several days, I will be providing regular updates about the themes and issues, as well as speakers, that will be part of a major national policy forum on terrorism that I am helping to organize in Washington on September 6 & 7.

I was stunned to learn this weekend that subscriptions to The Nation are surging. And while it’s not precipitous, TWN has been told that subscriptions to the New Republic are falling.

Baghdad is boiling. The killing is getting worse, and the fear.

This comment may be too little, too late from Henry Kissinger last night on CNN’s “Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer”: An architect of the U.S.

A few years ago, I sat at a roundtable book discussion featuring Michael Ledeen and his then new book — The War Against the Terror Masters: Why it Happened. Where We Are Now. How We’ll Win — hosted by BMW North America in Washington.

I’m sure that this post will frustrate a number of my friends, but seriously — $15,000?! This weekend I stayed with a great couple — thoughtful people who are public policy intellectuals in their own right — and they were invited to attend Bill Clinton’s mega-event, the “inaugural meeting” of the Clinton Global Initiative.

Tom Hayden has an interesting op-ed today in the Los Angeles Times. It’s useful because it gets past the thin debate on whether America should stay or leave and posits a way to leave that has a tangible work plan attached.

This just in from Arianna Huffington. John Bolton, who doesn’t have time for many other journalists, made some time in his busy schedule to drop in on and chat with jailed New York Times writer Judy Miller.

On Friday, Al Kamen ran a brief clip reporting on one of John Bolton’s first responses to journalists recording and watching his every move. From yesterday’s media stakeout of United Nations Ambassador John R. Bolton : Reporter: “A question on Iran?” Bolton: “No.” Perhaps John Bolton is modeling himself on Andrei Gromyko, the famous “Mr….