What Happened With Lou Dobbs
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.
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.
The controversial CNN anchor's abrupt exit took even his staff by surprise. Lloyd Grove and Rebecca Dana on the relief, sadness and job scramble at the studio.
The Housewife Who Keeps It Real
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.
Atlanta's most outrageous housewife, NeNe Leakes, talks to The Daily Beast about the Obamas' sex life, her brawl with a co-star, and why Anderson Cooper is welcome in her henhouse.
There was a fascinating documentary Errol Morris made called The Fog of War which has a series of interviews with Robert McNamara. He died July 6, at 93 years old, and was Defense secretary under presidents Kennedy and Johnson. You know ...
Anderson Cooper anchors Anderson Cooper 360° on CNN and is a reporter for CBS’s 60 Minutes. He is co-host of CNN's documentary series Planet in Peril, with Sanjay Gupta and Jeff Corwin.
Gloria Vanderbilt Gets Kinky
Megan Hustad is the author of How to Be Useful. She has written for The New York Times, Salon, Slate, and American Public Media's Marketplace.
In her new erotic novel, the 85-year-old author (and mom of Anderson Cooper) writes sex scenes-with hairbrushes, masks, and bees?-that would make a Golden Girl blush.
Mother of All Disasters
Tina Brown is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast. She is the author of the 2007 New York Times best seller The Diana Chronicles. Brown is the former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Talk magazines and host of CNBC's Topic A with Tina Brown.
That picture of octuplets' mom's obscenely large bulge represents an epic pop culture meltdown.
Summer Heights High. It's on HBO now, but I saw it a while ago in England. It's an Australian fake documentary following three characters in a high school. They are all played by the same actor. It is brilliantly funny, and will have you...
Anderson Cooper anchors Anderson Cooper 360° on CNN and is a reporter for CBS’s 60 Minutes. He is co-host of CNN's documentary series Planet in Peril, with Sanjay Gupta and Jeff Corwin.
Kathy Griffin Bleeps In The New Year
One minute she's chatting away, the next she's using one of the oldest-and dirtiest-heckler putdowns in the stand-up repertoire. Lesson learned: The mic is ALWAYS on.
Beyond Ryan Seacrest
Nicole Ankowski writes about television, pop culture, and—on occasion—more frivolous matters. She lives in Brooklyn.
What do the networks program on a holiday week? Think Christian orgies, Caroline Kennedy and a Law & Order marathon. Our weekly roundup of what's worth watching.
Anderson Cooper Hunts Sharks, Monkeys and Wild Rats
Henry Seltzer is a homepage editor for The Daily Beast. He previously worked at UsMagazine.com and The Huffington Post and filed for Gawker and Wonkette under the moniker of "Henry the Intern." He occasionally contributes to Project.ioni.st and once published Press Gaggle, a blog about the White House press briefings.
The Daily Beast talks to Cooper about his new high-octane environmental special, racing Michael Phelps, and tangling with great whites while protected by nothing but a bathing suit.
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.
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.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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.
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