Jesse the Body vs. Torture
Benjamin Sarlin is a reporter for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.
As Obama and Cheney clashed over fighting terror, a new voice has entered the fray: Jesse Ventura, who has declared war on torture. He talked to The Daily Beast about taking on opponents from both parties.
The Woman Who Killed Health Care
Benjamin Sarlin is a reporter for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.
With health care moving up on the national agenda, Betsy McCaughey, whose magazine article helped kill the Clinton plan, is back. Democrats had better be wary, warns Benjamin Sarlin.
New DHS Memo Revealed
Benjamin Sarlin is a reporter for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.
First, the Department of Homeland Security came under fire for a memo that warned of "right-wing extremists" that that pose a danger to the United States. Now, The Daily Beast publishes a new DHS memo that throws dozens more groups-Mexican separatists, black nationalists, Nordic mystics-under the bus.
Arlen Specter's Role Model Speaks
Benjamin Sarlin is a reporter for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.
Former Sen. Lincoln Chafee, who Specter cited yesterday as a victim of the Republican right, talks about why he too defected from the GOP-and why it was too late.
Right-Wing Becklash
Benjamin Sarlin is a reporter for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.
It's not just liberals who are scared to death by Glenn Beck. Prominent conservative pundits are speaking out, denouncing his hysterics before he sinks the entire movement.
Socialist Shocker!
Benjamin Sarlin is a reporter for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.
A stunning new poll shows that just 53 percent of Americans favor capitalism over socialism. The Daily Beast's Benjamin Sarlin writes that it's not Obama's fault. It's Rush Limbaugh's.
Don't Fear the Swedish Model
Benjamin Sarlin is a reporter for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.
Bo Lundgren, Sweden's minister for fiscal and financial affairs, stared down a financial crisis in the 1990s and lived to tell the tale. In a Daily Beast interview, he says the US could learn a thing or two from his famed solution.
Jindal's Volcanic Embarrassment
Benjamin Sarlin is a reporter for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.
Last month in his nationally televised speech, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal criticized Democrats for funding "something called volcano monitoring." Now with eruptions spewing ash 50,000 feet into the air over Alaska, the governor looks like the thumb-twiddling politician from every disaster movie.
Palin Fires Back at Obama for Special Olympics Joke
Benjamin Sarlin is a reporter for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.
The Alaska governor tells The Daily Beast that she was none too pleased with the president's gag line on The Tonight Show.
Exit Interview: Outgoing Blackwater Chief on Why He Owes No Apologies
Benjamin Sarlin is a reporter for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.
After 11 years at the helm of the controversial military company he founded, Erik Prince is stepping down. In an interview with The Daily Beast, he talks about why he's proud of Blackwater's work, the future of the company, and whether he expects the Obama administration to keep his firm on the payroll.
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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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.
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