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Michael Young 
Contributing Editor
Michael Young is a contributing editor at Reason magazine and Reason.com.
Young is also opinion page editor of the Daily Star newspaper in Beirut, Lebanon, where he writes a weekly column.
Young previously edited Lebanon Report and the bi-annual Beirut Review, both publications of the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies, where he was English publications editor until 2000. He also frequently contributes to publications in Lebanon, the United States and Europe. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, the International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times and numerous other publications.
Young regularly discusses the Middle East on a variety of radio and television networks, including CNN, Fox News Channel, the BBC, NPR, Radio Netherlands International, the Voice of America, and Radio France International.
Young received a B.A. in political science from the American University of Beirut (1985) and an M.A. in international relations, specializing in the Middle East, from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington (1987). He lives in Beirut with his wife.
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- Barack's Bitter Truth, Michael Young, April 17, 2008
- No miracles in Cana, Michael Young, April 3, 2008
- The Short Goodbye, Michael Young, March 17, 2008
- Nothing Left, Michael Young, February 28, 2008
- In Stable Condition, Michael Young, February 14, 2008
- Under Suspicion, Michael Young, January 31, 2008
- Pop Goes the President, Michael Young, January 11, 2008
- Soundbite: Al Queda's Forerunner, Michael Young, January 2008 Print Edition
- Long, Gone Neocons, Michael Young, December 27, 2007
- Love Thy Enemy, Michael Young, December 13, 2007
- White Flag Over Iraq, Michael Young, October 11, 2007
- Al-Qaeda's Forerunner, Michael Young, September 27, 2007
- The General in Our Labyrinth, Michael Young, September 13, 2007
- Dead Woman Walking, Michael Young, August 30, 2007
- Profit or Principle?, Michael Young, August 16, 2007
- Bush's Gulf Gambit, Michael Young, August 2, 2007
- Alphabet Soup in Iraq, Michael Young, July 19, 2007
- When Dictators Dictate, Michael Young, July 6, 2007
- The Enemy of My Enemy, Michael Young, June 21, 2007
- Left, Right, and Wrong, Michael Young, June 7, 2007
- Liberal Lebanon, Michael Young, May 24, 2007
- The Best of Enemies?, Michael Young, May 9, 2007
- Syrian Endgame, Michael Young, May 2, 2007
- A Man of Sharp Angles and Firm Truths, Michael Young, April 26, 2007
- Duck Soup, Michael Young, April 12, 2007
- The Pragmatic Ideologue, Michael Young, March 29, 2007
- By Way of Defection, Michael Young, March 15, 2007
- A Muckraker on the Wane?, Michael Young, March 1, 2007
- Brandish the Stick, But Don't Use It, Michael Young, February 8, 2007
- Realism, Indignation, and American Foreign Policy, Michael Young, February 2007 Print Edition
- Can Anyone Fix Lebanon?, Michael Young, February 2007 Print Edition
- What Are the Sunnis Thinking?, Michael Young, January 25, 2007
- A Surge of Pessimism, Michael Young, January 11, 2007
- Saddam, a Rope, and a Great Escape, Michael Young, January 5, 2007
- The Iraq Malaise, Michael Young, December 21, 2006
- Where to From Here?, Michael Young, December 7, 2006
- The Return of Realism, Michael Young, November 16, 2006
- Breaking Up Ain't Hard to Do, Michael Young, October 12, 2006
- House of Saud, House of Assad, Michael Young, September 28, 2006
- Ruled Britannia, Michael Young, September 14, 2006
- Hoodwinked by Hezbollah, Michael Young, August 24, 2006
- Clueless in Condi-land, Michael Young, August 10, 2006
- The Strange Case of Professor Hammoud, Michael Young, July 13, 2006
- I'd Like to Give the World a Goal, Michael Young, July 6, 2006
- Unpromising Land, Michael Young, June 15, 2006
- If You Rig It, They Will Come, Michael Young, June 1, 2006
- Three Views on Iraq, Three Years Later, Michael Young, Leon Hadar and Tom Palmer, June 2006 Print Edition
- Frogs in a Pot, Michael Young, May 25, 2006
- Iraq, Whose Model?, Michael Young, May 4, 2006