The way Fred Kaplan tells it in his enormous new biography, it sounds like an enviable life.

ECONOMIST: American literature

So too, Fred Kaplan at Slate online magazine claimed that the leaks showed that the Obama administration's foreign policy is successful because it succeeded in getting China on board with UN sanctions against Iran.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The WikiLeaks challenge

Many (possibly including Robert Gates, America's defence secretary) agreed with an article by Fred Kaplan, a commentator, in Slate, an online magazine, last February suggesting that, although America had gained from having fighting allies in Afghanistan, it had been wrong to let NATO lead the mission.

ECONOMIST: The future of NATO