Romesh Ratnesar
is Deputy Managing Editor of Time magazine. He has written on U.S. foreign policy and international affairs and reported from many countries around the world, including Iraq, Afghanistan, and Israel and the Palestinian territories.
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Romesh Ratnesar is Deputy Managing Editor of Time magazine. He has written dozens of cover stories on U.S. foreign policy and international affairs and reported from many countries around the world, including Iraq, Afghanistan, and Israel and the Palestinian territories. He has won numerous journalism prizes and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He lives in New York.
Ratnesar served for more than three years as TIME’s foreign editor and was previously a writer and correspondent for the magazine. Prior to joining TIME, Ratnesar was a reporter-researcher at The New Republic. He has also written for Slate, The Washington Post, Washington Monthly, Mother Jones, Legal Affairs and Lingua Franca.
With Michael Weisskopf, Ratnesar won the 2004 National Headliner Award for Magazine Reporting for TIME’s 2003 “Person of the Year” story on the American soldier. Ratnesar and Weisskopf also won New York Press Club awards for feature writing in 2004 and spot news reporting in 2003.
Ratnesar has been a Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution and was named a 2004-2005 Young Leader by the French-American Foundation. He received a B.A. and M.A. in history from Stanford University in 1996. He grew up in Hayward, CA.
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Avigdor Lieberman: Politically Incorrect
Time Magazine, July 13th, 2009
For a man reputed to be Israel's biggest loudmouth, Avigdor Lieberman speaks softly. His flat, Russian-accented baritone rarely rises above a murmur. He's not a shouter. But when Lieberman talks, people listen — less because he is Israel's top diplomat than because of his knack for saying decidedly undiplomatic things.
An Offer Burma Can’t Refuse
Time Magazine, May 15, 2008
The disaster in Burma presents the world with its worst humanitarian crisis since the 2004 Asian tsunami. The ruling military junta says that more than 30,000 people are dead; the U.N. estimates the figure at perhaps 100,000. The number of Burmese at risk of starvation and disease could reach nearly 2 million. Unless the victims receive immediate help, the death toll could conceivably approach that of the entire number of civilians killed in the genocide in Darfur.
Viewpoint: Obama Failing Sri Lanka Test
Time Magazine, May 12th, 2009
During the campaign, Barack Obama hinted at how his future Administration might act to stop suffering in the world. American foreign policy should focus on more than just killing terrorists; it needs to address "challenges of the 21st century" such as "climate change and poverty, genocide and disease."
Viewpoint: Sarah Palin’s Foreign Policy Follies
Time Magazine, September 27, 2008
It takes a hard heart not to like Sarah Palin. She has a winning personal story. She can be poised, charming and funny. As she showed at the Republican National Convention, her ability to deliver set-piece speeches — a big part of the job for all politicians, but especially Presidents — is considerable. On balance, she's probably an asset to John McCain. But we should stop pretending that she is ready now or will be ready anytime in the foreseeable future to be Commander in Chief.
An Inside Look at Hamid Karzai’s Rising Woes
Time Magazine, September 26th, 2006
Hamid Karzai is a hard man to see. Even for those who gain access to the Presidential Palace in Kabul, his office is nearly invisible, tucked into the corner of a two-story building and marked only by a plainclothes security guard who sits outside its wooden door holding a machine gun. The interior of the office is adorned with large Afghan rugs, cream-colored sofas and a marble fireplace; behind Karzai's desk is a bookcase that prominently displays the collected writings of George Washington. From the serenity of that perch, it's tempting to gaze down at the blossoming rose garden below and convince yourself that the war being waged to save Karzai's country is far, far away.
Portrait Of A Platoon
Time Magazine, December 29, 2003
The patrol has lasted an hour, the three humvees slashing and darting through hairpin turns and blind alleyways, looking for attackers. It's 9 o'clock on a clear, mild December night in Adhamiya, one of Baghdad's oldest neighborhoods and these days among the most restive. The soldiers are out to draw fire. They cruise the streets and make themselves targets in order to flush insurgents into the open.