Peter Beinart is editor-at-large at The New Republic. He is also a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a Time contributor and a monthly columnist for The Washington Post. His book, The Good Fight: Why Liberals--And Only Liberals--Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again, was published by HarperCollins in June 2006.

Beinart has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic Monthly, Newsweek, Slate, Reader's Digest, Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Polity: the Journal of the Northeastern Political Science Studies Association. The Week magazine named him columnist of the year for 2004.

He is a contributor to CNBC, and has appeared on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," "Charlie Rose," "The McLaughlin Group," MTV, "The Colbert Report" and many other television programs.

Beinart graduated from Yale University, winning both Rhodes and Marshall (declined) scholarships for graduate study at Oxford University. After graduating from University College, Oxford, Beinart became The New Republic's managing editor in 1995. He became senior editor in 1997, and from 1999 to 2006 served as the magazine's editor.