Ben Crair is the Deputy News Editor of The Daily Beast.
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Twitter Killed Media Criticism
Twitter's 140-character blasts aren't bringing down the newspapers.... MORE
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Executed Like a Dog
Oklahoma has a scandalous plan for executing inmates—with a drug used on animals.... MORE
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The Stephen Colbert of New Media
Alex Blagg, the demented genius behind the site BajillionHits, is having a ball playing a parody of... MORE
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A Death Serum Mystery
States were running out of a key chemical used in lethal injections. Suddenly, several found some.... MORE
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Witches Blast O'Donnell
Picnics on top of altars?... MORE
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The Democrats Can Win the House
Deep in red state country, the last Democratic optimist has a model that shows Democrats keeping a... MORE
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Hunting the 'American Taliban'
In his new book, Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas offers a liberal’s attempt at a conservative... MORE
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Road Trippin' in China
The Chinese have taken to the road in huge numbers, Peter Hessler reports in his new memoir about... MORE
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Doctors in the Death Chamber?
A badly botched lethal injection has put a slew of capital punishment cases on hold.... MORE
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How Polanski Could Help the Right
Hollywood's rally around admitted rapist Roman Polanski has resurrected the limousine liberal,... MORE
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Sex Advice from Cyrano
Katherine Heigl’s new movie, The Ugly Truth, shows how Cyrano de Bergerac, the poetic romantic... MORE
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Mark Sanford Is a Romantic Hero
Don’t stick the philandering South Carolina governor in the same lot with John Ensign, David... MORE
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The Secret Code Words of the Sotomayor Confirmation Battle
Supreme Court nominations require the media and politicians to develop their own delicate code... MORE
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The Republican Bestseller Machine
Glenn Beck's new three-book deal shows that while conservatives wander the political wilderness,... MORE
