Let the Gay Games Begin
Sure, Chicago lost the Olympics, but Cleveland nabbed the Gay Games. Itay Hod on the stunningly lucrative spectacle that had cash-strapped mayors going to the mat.
How Obama Divides—and Conquers
Michael Fullilove is the director of the global issues program at the Lowy Institute and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
The same diplomatic velvet glove that has flummoxed leaders from Cuba to Al Qaeda, reports Michael Fullilove, has also sown confusion among his conservative critics.
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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