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Enid Portuguez is a New York City-based writer and editor. Her work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times and Antenna magazine.
The co-creator of How I Met Your Mother discusses pregnancies, naked men, and-wait for it-Mr. Awesome, Neil Patrick Harris.
Great Presidential Pets
"If you want a friend in Washington,a Harry Truman famously quipped, "get a dog.a Presidential pets have long been thought of as symbols of their owners, every slobbery greeting and crooked whisker treated to near-exegetical analysis of the wiles, whims, and demeanors of world leaders and politicians. George W. Bush's feisty Scottie was moved to violence at the end of Dubya's second term, while Caroline Kennedy's pet pony, Macaroni, was the dream toy from Camelot. The Daily Beast explores how Bo fits into the pantheon of first pets.
America's Craziest Cities
A True Hollywood Love Story
Rebecca Dana is a senior 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 Rove You Don't Know
Matt Latimer is the author of the New York Times bestseller, SPEECH-LESS: Tales of a White House Survivor. He was deputy director of speechwriting for George W. Bush and chief speechwriter for Donald Rumsfeld.
Iraq's Next First Daughter?
Michael Hastings is a regular contributor to GQ and the author of I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story. He is currently on assignment in Iraq.
Karl Rove's Book of Lies
Paul Begala is a CNN political contributor and a research professor at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute. He was a senior strategist for the 1992 Clinton-Gore campaign and served as counselor to President Clinton in the White House.
Hillary Deploys a Friend in the Fight for Women's Rights
Sandra McElwaine is a Washington-based journalist. She has been a reporter for The Washington Star, The Baltimore Sun, a correspondent for CNN and People, and Washington editor of Vogue and Cosmopolitan. Currently she writes for The Daily Beast, The Washington Post, Time, and Forbes.
