Nobel Gone Nuts
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
The world is a different place than when Alfred Nobel cooked up the peace prize. Obama's Nobel win, following misguided peace prizes for Yassir Arafat and Henry Kissinger, proves the prize is obsolete.
Bill Ayers Punks Conservative Blogger
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 far-right fever swamps have been fantasizing for weeks that Bill Ayers wrote President Obama's memoirs. According to Ayers, they're living the "twilight zone."
Kristol's Secret Plan to Support Obama
John P. Avlon writes a column for The Daily Beast and is author of the forthcoming Attack of the Wingnuts, to be published in January by Beast Books. He is also the author of Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics. Previously, he served as chief speechwriter for New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and was a columnist and associate editor for The New York Sun.
Talk about strange bedfellows. The neocon godfather, who started a new policy group, loves Obama's plan for Afghanistan. He tells The Daily Beast why Obama is a Democrat he can get behind.
Ignore the Skeptics: We Can Win Afghanistan
Mark Salter is the former chief of staff to Senator John McCain and senior adviser to the McCain for President campaign.
Memo to the president: Some on the left are telling you that we can't win in Afghanistan, and that ramping up the war there is a mistake. Don't listen to them. The stakes are too high.
Acid Trips and Frozen Heads at San Francisco’s Trippiest Party
Kate Coleman is a freelance journalist residing in Berkeley, California.
At a wild celebration reuniting friends and family of the late LSD guru Timothy Leary, status anxiety, Bill Ayers, and near-miss decapitations were the pink elephants in the room.
Rush Limbaugh Loses a Popularity Contest
Max Blumenthal is a senior writer for The Daily Beast, writing fellow at The Nation Institute and author of Republican Gomorrah (Basic/Nation Books). Contact him at maxblumenthal3000@yahoo.com.
Congressional Republicans have turned to Rush Limbaugh to lead the battle against Obama. One problem: A poll says he's less popular than Jeremiah Wright.
The Uninvited
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Of the millions trekking to Obama's inauguration next week, a few prominent figures have been left out. The Daily Beast finds out what Sarah Palin, Bill Ayers, Bill Richardson, and other Go-Away List guests are up to.
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.
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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