George W. Bush: The Makeover
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Can the George W. Bush Policy Institute be a bipartisan, non-ideological engine for change? Lloyd Grove talks to the man in charge, James Glassman, about the challenge ahead.
5 People Who Guessed Wrong on the Economy
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A year after the fall of Lehman Brothers and the economic collapse, The Daily Beast calls out five big names who misread the nation's financial health-and the one who actually had it right.
Madoff's Sex/Money Paradox
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.
Sheryl Weinstein, the Ponzi victim who slept with Bernie-and just wrote a tell-all about it-might just be an Emma Bovary for the 21st century.
Inside the Dead Girl's Wild Nightclub
Jeff Deeney is a social worker and freelance writer from Philadelphia. He previously wrote about his experience scoring OxyContin on Pill Hill for the Philadelphia City Paper
One month after rich suburban girl-turned-drug-trafficker Rian Thal was murdered in her luxury apartment building, Jeff Deeney goes inside Plush, the Philly hip-hop club where she was a rising star.
How a Rich Suburban Girl Became a Drug Kingpin
Jeff Deeney is a social worker and freelance writer from Philadelphia. He previously wrote about his experience scoring OxyContin on Pill Hill for the Philadelphia City Paper
Ever since the murder of Rian Thal two weeks ago in Philadelphia, everyone wants to know how this girl from a wealthy suburb ended up a high-stakes drug trafficker in the city's hip-hop scene-but it's not as unusual as you might think.
A Royal Day at the Races
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Simon Cowell bet on the right horses and won £20,000 on the opening day of the glamorous Royal Ascot. VIEW OUR PHOTOS of the Queen, Charles and Camilla, and a parade of stunning hats.
How does a president who's about to spend $1 trillion-plus claim with a straight face that he'll also reduce the deficit? Through measures that include tax increases on the wealthy and drawing down forces in Iraq, Obama is promising fiscal discipline that will lead the country in both directions.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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