Political defectors, outraged rock stars, sexed-up sugar daddies—and other great reads from The Daily Beast since our launch in October.
Christopher Buckley: Sorry, Dad, I'm Voting for Obama
The son of William F. Buckley decided—shock!—to vote for a Democrat.
October 10, 2008
Let me be the latest conservative/libertarian/whatever to leap onto the Barack Obama bandwagon. It’s a good thing my dear old mum and pup are no longer alive. They’d cut off my allowance ... MORE >>
(Read Buckley's follow-up column about getting fired from the National Review here.)
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California, You Can Forget My Taxes
Singer Melissa Etheridge rails against the passage of the gay-marriage ban in California--and she won't be paying the state a dime.
November 6, 2008
Okay. So Prop 8 passed. Alright, I get it. 51% of you think that I am a second class citizen. Alright then. So my wife, uh I mean, roommate? Girlfriend? Special lady friend? You are gonna have to ... MORE >>
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Historian Sean Wilentz talks to Jesse Jackson and civil-rights veterans about their awe of—and tensions with—the Obama campaign.
November 3, 2008
“I’ve been able to see our nation get better,” the Rev. Jesse Jackson muses, in joyful anticipation of Barack Obama’s impending presidential victory. Jackson is reflecting on what he called “sixty years of battles to democratize democracy.” Tuesday’s ... MORE >>
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Jennifer Lopez opens up about motherhood, Scientology, and a "nervous breakdown" that she's never publicly discussed.
October 6, 2006
"Don't blow the horn," I tell my driver as we approach the gates. "I'm sure we're being watched. A guard will appear." Sure enough, the ornate iron gates swing open and a large Latin guard speeds toward us on a Segway Human Transporter, his ear glued to a walkie-talkie." I'm here to see Miss Lopez," I inform him ... MORE >>
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Tina Brown: What Sarah Palin Didn't Say
The interviews with Sarah Palin in her TV media blitz have failed to answer the only question I'm interested in: Now that it's all over, Sarah, who does look after the kids?
November 11, 2008
I could never see a shot of the dynamite-looking Palin sashaying out to greet the crowd in those borrowed gladrags without thinking of what it must be like backstage. If it was anything like the early childrearing ... MORE >>
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Toure: Can We Say "Fuck Whitey" If the President is Black?
Obama's victory creates an identity crisis for black men. Whom do we rail against if the guy in the Oval Office is one of us?
November 5, 2008
Obama’s election necessitates a rethinking of what it means to be a black man. In our blood there’s a rebelliousness, in our heart there’s a certainty that America hates us, and in our soul there’s an acceptance that America considers us the monster. Black men call ... MORE >>
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Some might call it prostitution. I call it a "mutually beneficial arrangement" that pays for my killer wardrobe.
November 30, 2008
Mutually Beneficial Arrangement. That is the polite term that popular culture has coined for the type of relationship I’m in. Had one asked me if this was the sort of relationship I could see myself being involved in a few years ago ... MORE >>
(Read her sugar daddy's response here.)
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Return of Chest Hair
From Mad Men's Jon Hamm to Gossip Girl's Ed Westwick, torso-fros are (finally) making a comeback. Plus: A gallery of the hottest fuzz.
December 16, 2008
Ever since Adam caught Eve checking out that snake, men have spent way too much time worrying about the appearance of their manhood. What’s more important, the size of the wave or the motion of the ocean? Well, I’m here to make a bunch of men more neurotic by telling you the answer ... MORE >>
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Is Barack Obama America's first "black" president, or America's first "biracial" president? The Daily Beast's Patricia J. Williams on why the discussion is ridiculous.
November 8, 2008
It was surely meant as a wry aside when, speaking about his daughters’ search for a puppy, Barack Obama observed that most shelter dogs are “mutts like me.” My first thought, however, was: “Ain’t I a mutt, too?” In fact, of course, we’re all mutts ... MORE >>
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Why Are Christians Having Better Sex Than the Rest of Us?
A Texas pastor has come up with one of the best public policy proposals of the decade: have more sex. Tucker Carlson weighs in.
November 25, 2008
Let’s concede right up front that you hate evangelicals. Most affluent, educated people do. Where I live, they're the most unpopular group there is. How do I know this? Because of the reaction ... MORE >>
Tracy Quan's latest novel is Diary of a Jetsetting Call Girl, set in Provence and praised in The Nation as a "deft account of occupational rigors and anxieties before the crash." Tracy's debut, Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl, and the sequel, Diary of a Married Call Girl, are international bestsellers. A regular columnist for The Guardian, she has written for many publications including Cosmopolitan, The Financial Times, and The New York Times.
Joe Mathews is a journalist, an Irvine senior fellow at the New America Foundation, and a contributing writer at the Los Angeles Times. He previously served as Justice Department reporter for the Wall Street Journal and as a city desk reporter at the Baltimore Sun. He is the author of The People’s Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Rise of Blockbuster Democracy.
Gerald Posner is the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism (www.posner.com). Posner lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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.
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Amanda Fortini has written for The New Yorker, Slate, Elle, and New York, among other publications. She lives in Los Angeles.
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.
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.
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All in all, pretty thin, don't you think?
Why are all the events in the last tri-master of the year? I forgot about the first and the second.. i needed you to remind me!
Thanks for doing this -- I hadn't seen that ridiculous posting by Lafferty on Palin. She must be so embarrassed to read it now ...
The #1 story was what firts brought me here to read Christo Buckley's work. I'm still waiting for Fr. Neuhaus to sign him up at *First Things*... :)
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