I listen to the exquisitely unique rock band Dengue Fever when I need to find some sort of sonic bridge between my adolescence in the L.A. music scene and my years as a reporter in Cambodia. Their songs, in Khmer and English, are inspire...
Eric Pape has reported on Europe and the Mediterranean region for Newsweek Magazine since 2003. He is co-author of the graphic novel Shake Girl, which was inspired by one of his articles. He has written for the Los Angeles Times magazine, Spin, Vibe, Le Courrier International, Salon, Los Angeles and others. He is based in Paris.
Demi's Sex Slave Crusade
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Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher are taking up the cause of modern day slavery. Read incredible stories from former sex slaves and activists celebrated at the Freedom Awards this week.
Cambodia's Fearless Heroine
Gail Sheehy is an American writer and lecturer, most notable for her books on life and the life cycle. She is also a contributor to Vanity Fair, and can be found at gailsheehy.com
The prime minister calls her a "hustler" and a "gangster," but Mo Sochua is a savior of women sold into sex slavery-and willing to go to prison if that's what it takes to help them.
Cambodia's New War
Katrin Redfern is a writer and editor at The Indypendent in New York City.
The Nobel-nominated opposition leader of Southeast Asia's saddest, bloodiest country has brought a message for Hillary Clinton: Our democracy needs your help.
Obama's Pirate Coup
Julian E. Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School. He is the co-editor of Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s and is completing a book on the history of national-security politics since World War II, to be published by Basic Books.
The president is receiving high praise for the rescue. Historian Julian Zelizer says that a thrilling episode from Gerald Ford's presidency proves the good feelings may not last long.
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.
The Daily Beast is dedicated to news and commentary, culture, and entertainment. We carefully curate the web’s most essential stories and bring you original must-reads from our talented contributors.
Rachel Kramer Bussel is the editor of Peep Show: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists, Bottoms Up and over 25 other erotica anthologies, and hosts and curates In The Flesh Reading Series.
Lynn Sherr is a former ABC News correspondent, author of Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words and Tall Blondes, a book about giraffes. She is also co-editor of Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life. Her most recent book, a memoir—Outside the Box: My Unscripted Life of Love, Loss and Television News—is out in paperback.
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.
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. (Follow him on Twitter here.)
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