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Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences The Collateral Damage to Muslims
Reihan Salam is a fellow at the New America Foundation and the co-author of Grand New Party.
The suspected Fort Hood shooter left more than a trail of carnage in his wake. He has sown fear in the hearts of millions of Muslim Americans—and inflamed hatred of Islam.
Todd Bissonette / AP Photo The Purged Moderate Speaks
Michael Smerconish is a nationally syndicated radio host. His latest book, Instinct: The Man Who Stopped the 20th Hijacker, was published last month.
How is Dede Scozzafava holding up after a conservative insurgent drove her from the New York House race? Michael Smerconish asks the former Republican candidate about the future of her party.
Overture Films The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, Obama mingles with Hollywood’s A-list, Precious finally hits theaters, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin team up, and more in art, music, theater, and film.
Bachmann's Angry Mob
John Batchelor is radio host of the John Batchelor Show in New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
Anywhere but Fort Hood
Gail Sheehy is an American writer and lecturer, most notable for her books on life and the life cycle. She is also a contributor to Vanity Fair, and can be found at gailsheehy.com
Levi Unzipped: Inside Playgirl's Big Stunt
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
Fort Hood's Bleak World
Mimi Swartz is executive editor of Texas Monthly, and the author, with Sherron Watkins, of Power Failure: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron. She has been a staff writer at Talk and the New Yorker.
How to Help the Shell-Shocked
Shermakaye Bass is a freelance writer based in Austin, Texas. She has written for People, the International Herald Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, National Geographic Traveler, the New York Times, and Texas Highways, among others.
The Fort Hood tragedy put the military's PTSD problem in the spotlight. The platoon sergeant they called 'Bad Voodoo' on why the mental-health stigma won't go away.
Next Stop, the Senate
Sally Denton is a writer based in Santa Fe and author of six books, including The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America and the forthcoming The Pink Lady: The Many Lives of Helen Gahagan Douglas (Bloomsbury Press).
As the House narrowly passed the health-care bill Saturday night, Sen. Harry Reid, the man now charged with pushing the bill through the Senate, is closing in on 60 votes. How? Sen. Lieberman’s post-election loyalty to the Senate Majority Leader—and the political implosion of Reid's Nevada rival.
The Fall of the Wall: The Rise of Freedom
Mr. Kimmitt served as Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs from 1989-1991 and American Ambassador to Germany from 1991-1993.
The first U.S. ambassador to a newly unified Germany recounts his memories of the fall of the wall, and looks ahead to a Europe that's just as whole.
Stopping the Next McVeigh
As neo-Nazis take to the streets this weekend, officials say their new boldness echoes the homegrown terrorism of the 1990s. James Verini talks to the extremists leading the charge.
Major Hasan's Hidden Militancy
Asra Q. Nomani is the author of Standing Alone: An American Woman’s Struggle for the Soul of Islam. She is co-director of the Pearl Project, an investigation into the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Her activism for women’s rights at her mosque in West Virginia is the subject of a PBS documentary, The Mosque in Morgantown. She can be found on Facebook, and reached at asra@asranomani.com
The alleged Fort Hood gunman had revealed a hard-line Islamist streak to acquaintances in the Muslim Community Center that he made his mosque. The Daily Beast's Asra Q. Nomani reports.
Going Postal
Mark Ames is the author of Going Postal: Rage, Murder and Rebellion From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond and The eXile: Sex, Drugs and Libel in the New Russia. He is a regular contributor to eXiled Online.
The office shooting in Orlando—on the same day unemployment crested 10 percent—is a deadly omen. Mark Ames on why spikes in joblessness always breed more workplace violence.
America's Mass Murder Addiction
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
No other prosperous country not torn by civil conflict has anything like our volume of mass killings. Lee Siegel on America’s shameful epidemic.
The Week in Cartoons
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Why was Election Day like a McDonald's giveaway? What’s written on the GOP's welcome mat? And what do the Yankees share with Obama? VIEW OUR GALLERY of the week's best political cartoons.
The Fall of the Berlin Wall: 20 Crucial Moments
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Just ahead of the 20th anniversary of the fall of The Berlin Wall, the Daily Beast looks at 20 events that led to the opening of modern history’s most infamous barrier. View our gallery.
The Democrats' Midterm Nightmare
Matt Miller is a management consultant, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and the host of public radio’s popular political week-in-review, Left, Right & Center. His new book is The Tyranny of Dead Ideas.
As House leaders push to pass health-care reform, a major political headache looms: The bill’s impact won’t be felt until long after already anxious voters go to the polls in 2010.
The Week in Viral Videos
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From Sesame Street's Fox News slam to a Philippines prison's Queen jam, watch the buzziest viral videos of the week.
Week in Red Carpet
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Kate Bosworth wears winter white in Moscow, Leighton Meester stuns in floral, and Katy Perry goes jeweled and feathered. VIEW OUR GALLERY of the best looks of the week.
'Wide Open to Attack'
Jeff Stein wrote the SpyTalk blog at Congressional Quarterly from 2005 through September 2009.
As Fort Hood mourns the death of 13 soldiers at an Army psychiatrist’s hand, the ex-chief of the CIA’s WMD unit says security at U.S. military bases nationwide is grossly inadequate.
A Serial Killer's Free Rein
Mansfield Frazier is a native Clevelander and former newspaper editor. His regular column can be seen on CoolCleveland.com. An avid gardener, he resides in the Hough neighborhood of Cleveland with his wife Brenda and their two dogs, Gypsy and Ginger.
No one cared about Cleveland’s missing black women until it turned out to be the work of a serial killer. Now the cops and the media are all over us—about four years too late.
Bringing Down Bachmann
Benjamin Sarlin is a reporter for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.
The far right’s star House member just hit the headlines with a rowdy health-care rally on Capitol Hill. Benjamin Sarlin reports on the Democrats lining up in Minnesota to send Michele Bachmann into early retirement.
Fort Hood Shooting: The Aftermath
The Daily Beast is dedicated to news and commentary, culture, and entertainment. We carefully curate the web’s most essential stories and bring you original must-reads from our talented contributors.
Authorities are still piecing together a troubling portrait of the man thought to be the killer of at least 13 people in Thursday’s mass shooting at Fort Hood. Follow the breaking details about the victims, suspected shooter, and government response.
Maha Gaber Abouelenein is the principal of communications firm Organizational Consultants. She focuses on US politics and bridging understanding with Arab cultures, media, and government. She is an active member in the World Economic Forum and the co-Chair of the Corporate Governance Committee of the US Chamber of Commerce.
Richard Abowitz is on the staff of Las Vegas Weekly and writes the Movable Buffet blog and column for Los Angeles Times. He covers and music and culture, and for a decade has chronicled the rise and continuing fall of Las Vegas.
Dan Abrams is CEO of Abrams Research, an attorney, and chief legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.
Bruce Ackerman is Sterling professor of law and political science at Yale, and the author of 15 books on political philosophy, constitutional law, and public policy. His works include Social Justice in the Liberal State, the multivolume constitutional history, We the People, The Failure of the Founding Fathers and Before the Next Attack.
Edward Adams (1933-2004) was a Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist best known for his war coverage. He mostly worked for The Associated Press, Time and Parade. His photographs of human rights defenders from 36 countries were published in a book with Kerry Kennedy, Speak Truth to Power.
Mark Adams is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in many of America’s leading magazines, including GQ, Outside, the New York Times Magazine, Fortune and National Geographic Adventure, where he is a contributing editor. Adams wrote New York magazine’s popular column “It Happened Last Week” and once ran 26 miles alone through the streets of Manhattan for an assignment. Originally from Oak Park, Illinois, he now lives near New York City with his wife and their three sons.
Aravind Adiga is the bestselling author of The White Tiger, which won the 2008 Man Booker Prize.
Jerry Adler is a contributing editor at Newsweek, where he writes about medicine, science, and ideas. He is the author of High Rise: How 1,000 Men and Women Worked Around the Clock for Five Years and Lost $200 Million Building a Skyscraper.
Michael Adler, a longtime reporter for Agence France-Presse, is currently a scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center and is writing a book on Iran’s nuclear diplomacy, which he has covered for most of this decade.
Prashant Agrawal is CEO of Indipepal.com, India's only social portal. He previously worked at Skadden Arps, McKinsey, and a hedge fund, and is a contributing editor to GQ India and the magazine’s business columnist.
Liaquat Ahamed is the author of Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, a book about the causes of the Great Depression. After working as an economist at the World Bank, he spent 25 years as a professional investment manager in London and New York.
Lee Aitken is an editor and writer who has worked at Time Inc., the New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler, and the International Tribune, among others. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her daughter.
Well known Indian journalist M.J. Akbar is the editor of Covert, a fortnightly magazine of current affairs, a blogger and the author of many books, most recently Blood Brothers.
Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan is a board member of the United Nations Foundation.
Maysoon Al-Damluji is an Iraqi Member of Parliament and lives in Baghdad, Iraq. A liberal Iraqi politician and women's rights campaigner, she was Iraq's Deputy Minister of Culture from June 2004 until March 2006 and is the president of the Iraqi Independent Women's Group (IIWG) and comes from a long line of Iraq politicians.
Anne Marie Albano, Ph.D., ABPP, is an associate professor of clinical psychology in psychiatry at Columbia University and the director of the Columbia University Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Columbus Circle in Manhattan.
Madeleine K. Albright is a principal of The Albright Group LLC, a global strategy firm, and chairwoman and principal of Albright Capital Management LLC, an investment advisory firm focused on emerging markets. In 1997, she was named the first woman secretary of State. From 1993 to 1997, Dr. Albright served as the US permanent representative to the UN. Her latest book is Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership.
Linda Alcorace is a writer and Adjunct Professor of English at Santa Monica College. Her work has also appeared in The Los Angeles Times and The Copley Press.
Nelson W. Aldrich Jr. is a freelance writer and editor. Formerly Paris editor of The Paris Review, a senior editor at Harper’s magazine, and a reporter for the Boston Globe, he is a frequent contributor to The Atlantic, Harper’s, The Nation, and Vogue, among other publications.
Matthew Alexander is a pseudonym for a 14 year veteran of the U.S. Air Force. As the leader of an elite interrogations team in Iraq, he conducted more than 300 interrogations and supervised more than 1,000. He served in three wars and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal in 2006. He is the author of How to Break A Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq.
Paul Alexander is the author of Machiavelli’s Shadow: The Rise and Fall of Karl Rove and Man of the People: The Life of John McCain, among others. A member of The Authors Guild and PEN American Center, Paul has been a fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, and escaped an arranged marriage by immigrating to the Netherlands in 1992. She served as a member of the Dutch parliament from 2003 to 2006 and is currently a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Her autobiography, Infidel, was a 2007 New York Times bestseller.
Anita L. Allen is the Henry R. Silverman professor of law and professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. She writes about everyday ethics, health, and the right to privacy for scholarly journals and the popular press.
Eric Alterman is a professor of English and journalism at Brooklyn College and a professor of journalism at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. He is the author, most recently, of Why We're Liberals: A Handbook for Restoring America's Important Ideals.
Howard Altman is an editor in the converged newsroom of TBO.com, WFLA-TV and The Tampa Tribune. He has written about jihadi websites since shortly after 9/11, when he broke the story about the Saudi Bin Laden Group website’s pre-set expiration date of 9/11/01. Altman has won more than 50 journalism awards and had his work translated into several languages.
Ronnie Sue Ambrosino is a retired computer analyst originally from New York. She has traveled the country for the last 4 years in a motor home experiencing all the country has to offer. That ended abruptly on Dec. 11th when her only source of income, Bernard Madoff, confessed to running the largest Ponzi scheme in history. Ronnie Sue is proactively involved in joining together other Madoff victims in an effort to find restitution and recovery at bernardmadoffvictims.org.
Mark Ames is the author of Going Postal: Rage, Murder and Rebellion From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond and The eXile: Sex, Drugs and Libel in the New Russia. He is a regular contributor to eXiled Online.
Kurt Andersen is the author of two novels, the critically acclaimed bestsellers Heyday and Turn of the Century. His new book is called Reset: How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America. He is also host and co-creator of the Peabody Award-winning public radio program Studio 360, editor-at-large for Random House, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and writes for film, television and the stage.
Chris Anderson is Editor in Chief of Wired Magazine and the author of The Long Tail: Why The Future of Business is Selling Less of More and the new Free: The Future of a Radical Price. He was previously at The Economist and before that in the world of science, starting in physics and ending at the science journals Nature and Science.
José Andrés is the host of Made in Spain, a public-television series about Spain’s wine, food, and travel. José and his partners in THINKfoodGROUP are the creative team behind Café Atlantico, Jaleo, Zaytinya, Oyamel and minibar in Washington, D.C.
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