Ken Starr's Liberal Lovefest
Tunku Varadarajan is a national affairs correspondent and writer at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and a professor at NYU’s Stern Business School. He is a former assistant managing editor at The Wall Street Journal. (Follow him on Twitter here.)
Long a target of liberal enmity for his role in the Clinton-Lewinsky probe, the former independent counsel is now taking on a cause the left can applaud. He talks to Tunku Varadarajan about his stand against Liz Cheney, his new job, and how he'd have done things differently in the 1990s. Plus, why government, and baseball, would make George W. Bush a good visiting professor.
The New Anti-War Right
Reihan Salam is a policy advisor at e21 and a fellow at the New America Foundation.
If Obama thinks the left is rapidly abandoning him on Afghanistan, wait till he sees the Republican defectors.
November 29: 7 Best Moments From Sunday Talk
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Rick Warren backpedals on gay marriage, Carl Levin blames Bush for Afghanistan, and Google's Eric Schmidt offers an Orwellian vision of the future. That and more in our Sunday roundup.
China's Upper Hand
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, will be published by HarperCollins in June. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
Obama faces a new reality as he tries to reengage Beijing: from global warming to currency, Peter Beinart says the days when the U.S. can make demands of China are over. Plus, view our gallery.
Sarah from Alaska takes center stage Tuesday with the release of her memoir. The Daily Beast catches up with the family, friends, and steadfast supporters who have been pivotal to her rise.
Battle for American Jews
Matthew Yglesias is a Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. He is the author of Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats.
An upstart Washington advocacy group called J Street has mounted a leftist challenge to the hawkish establishment over who speaks for American Jews-but Matthew Yglesias says the old guard's response risks alienating Jews and hurting Israel.
Top 8 Moments From Sunday Talk Shows
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Cokie Roberts says Roman Polanski should be taken out and shot, Lindsey Graham blasts Glenn Beck (figuratively) and Rachel Maddow has some choice words for Sarah Palin's ghostwriter. That and more in our weekly roundup.
Don't Short the Surge
Reihan Salam is a policy advisor at e21 and a fellow at the New America Foundation.
Obama faces liberal pressure to scale back on sending new troops to Afghanistan. Reihan Salam on the dangers-for security and economic stability-of 'playing it safe.'
Investigative journalist and syndicated columnist Diane Dimond has covered the Michael Jackson story since 1993 when she first broke the news that the King of Pop was under investigation for child molestation. She is author of the book, Be Careful Who You Love—Inside the Michael Jackson Case. She lives in New York with her husband, broadcast journalist Michael Schoen.
Clive Irving is senior consulting editor at Conde Nast Traveler, specializing in aviation—find his blog, Clive Alive, at CliveAlive.Truth.Travel.
Investigative journalist and syndicated columnist Diane Dimond has covered the Michael Jackson story since 1993 when she first broke the news that the King of Pop was under investigation for child molestation. She is author of the book, Be Careful Who You Love—Inside the Michael Jackson Case. She lives in New York with her husband, broadcast journalist Michael Schoen.
Recording artist, concert performer, and philanthropist John Legend has won six Grammy awards and was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people. In 2007, John Legend launched the Show Me Campaign (ShowMeCampaign.org), an initiative that uses education to break the cycle of poverty. He is a co-chair of the Harlem Village Academies Founder’s Council, an advisory board for a group of charter schools in New York City.
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.
