Fred Kaplan

Fred Kaplan, national-security columnist for Slate.com and the author of 1959: The Year Everything Changed (Wiley, 2009), and George Packer, New Yorker staff writer and the author of Interesting Times: ...

President Obama’s Nuclear Posture Review was released this week and has been hailed in some arms control circles for its limits on the first-use of nuclear weapons by the United States. But, the Obama Administration’s FY 2011 defense budget—even when adjusted for inflation—is larger than any Pentagon budget since World ...

Fred Kaplan, columnist at Slate.com, and Bobby Ghosh, senior editor at Time, discuss General McChrystal's assessment of the war in Afghanistan and the effort to combat the Taliban and Al-Qaeda there.

Slate columnist Fred Kaplan argues that it was in 1959 that the country shifted from its pre-WWII traditions to the individualistic, question-authority world of today. In 1959: The Year Everything Changed, he discusses three key events served as catalysts for vast changes that ushered in the modern world: ...

Fred Kaplan, author and "war stories" columnist for Slate.com, discusses his new book Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power.

Fred Kaplan, who writes the "War Stories" column for Slate.com, offers analysis on military spending in Iraq, and the additional $50 billion Bush plans to ask Congress for.