Tune in to Brick City, a five-part documentary that begins tonight on the Sundance Channel. It follows the lives of Newark's Mayor Cory Booker, citizens on the frontlines, and key figures as they re-make Newark. It creates a vivid portra...
Adrian M. Fenty was elected the fifth Mayor of the District of Columbia in November 2006. He has made quality public education for all and efficient and accountable government hallmarks of his administration.
From Newark's Cory Booker to Alabama's Artur Davis, a new generation stands poised to follow in Barack Obama's footsteps. The Daily Beast profiles six up-and-comers who have big elections ahead of them.
Inaugural Hell
Lyric Wallwork Winik is an award-winning writer and author and the Washington correspondent for Parade magazine. Her next book will be about Magellan’s voyage for Crown, and she is married to the bestselling historian, Jay Winik.
Message to you out-of-towners heading to Washington, D.C., for your first presidential inauguration: You will be miserable.
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.
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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.
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