He is the son of Academy-Award winning screenwriter and film producer Carl Foreman (1914–1984), who moved to England to work after being blacklisted by Hollywood movie studio bosses during the McCarthy era.
[2] After working as an editorial assistant for the International Herald Tribune, Foreman received his JD degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
[3] Foreman then travelled widely in Asia, winning[4] the South Asian Journalists Association first prize for reporting in 1997 for the City Journal piece, "Bombay on the Hudson".
On the strength of his Iraq coverage, the Post subsequently sent him to cover the California recall election of October 2003.
After several years with The Daily Mail, Foreman co-founded the British magazine Standpoint, launched in May 2008.