The Fight Over Hillary's Seat
Andrew Tobias is a Democratic fundraiser and the author of three New York Times best-sellers: Fire and Ice: The Charles Revson/Revlon Story, The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need, and The Invisible Bankers.
Carolyn Maloney should get out of the way and not challenge Kirsten Gillibrand for New York's Senate seat, says Democratic fundraiser Andrew Tobias. Five reasons why Maloney's primary move would hurt the party.
Bring on the Traitor Democrats
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.
Who cares if Obama's electoral coalition is fragile? Democrats need to run against other Democrats to push Congress to the left.
Amid a major push for health care reform, a Mideast peace plan, and the start of recruiting season for the 2010 midterms, attention is turning to a group of Democrats who have bucked the president's agenda. Do these problem Dems threaten to undermine Obama's ambitious plans?
Even before she announced her desire to replace Hillary Clinton as the junior senator from New York, Caroline Kennedy had become a galvanizing figure in national politics. Was she worthy of the office once held by her uncle Robert? Or is she, as Elizabeth Wurtzel suggested in The Daily Beast this week, someone who "has shown no evidence of being able to hold down a regular job"?
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.
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.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
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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.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
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