Axelrods Open Up on Battle with Epilepsy
White House adviser David Axelrod and his wife Susan talk to Katie Couric about their daughter's struggle with epilepsy and Susan's work with a nonprofit called CURE to raise awareness and fund res...
The Man Who Robbed Medicare of Millions
Meet the new face of Medicare fraud: as 60 Minutes reported Sunday night, literally billions of dollars are being stolen from the government from unsophisticated criminals like the gentleman in thi...
This Week's Hot Reads
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.
This week: A reporter's journey to overcome a troubled childhood, a new collection of stories from Sherman Alexie, America's favorite hero gets a new biography, a civil rights tale of delayed justice, and a man's efforts to predict the future.
White House Done With Wilson
Richard Wolffe is Daily Beast columnist and an award-winning journalist, and senior strategist at Public Strategies. He covered the entire length of Barack Obama's presidential campaign for Newsweek magazine. His book, Renegade: The Making of a President, was published by Crown in June.
The White House hits the road for health care reform, and speaks out-proclaiming the town-hall meetings didn't matter, branding the Wilson flap as "a pimple on the ass of progress."
Diane Sawyer: Through the Years
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.
Sawyer was just announced as Charles Gibson's successor as anchor of World News. From her young win at America's Junior Miss pageant to memorable interviews with Michael Jackson and George W. Bush, VIEW OUR GALLERY of the journalist's life.
The ABC's of Diane's Deal
Rebecca Dana is a culture correspondent for The Daily Beast. A former editor and reporter for the Wall Street Journal, she has also written for the New York Times, the New York Observer, Rolling Stone and Slate, among other publications.
Diane Sawyer finally got her dream job. Rebecca Dana reports on the palace intrigue-including a "livid" Charles Gibson-that led to her coronation. Plus, her life in pictures.
A Former Competitor on Don Hewitt's TV Legacy
Victor was executive producer of 20/20 for 15 years, starting in 1987. He then was the executive producer of The Early Show at CBS News, and later the executive producer of Paula Zahn Now at CNN. He is now a senior counselor at The Dilenschneider Group.
As senior producer and then executive producer of newsmagazine upstart 20/20, Victor Neufeld was obsessed with Don Hewitt's skill at rival 60 Minutes. With Hewitt's death at 86, Neufeld sees his legacy in surprising spots.
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.
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.
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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