New Jersey's Obama Wannabe
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.
Chris Christie rode to victory in New Jersey by grabbing the president's change mantra. Lee Siegel on the GOP governor-elect's audacity of hope.
Rahm: What, Me a Partisan? Really?
Rahm Emanuel, appearing on 'Meet the Press,' is shocked-shocked!-to hear David Gregory say he has a reputation for partisanship. Source: Meet the Press
'What Up, My Obama?'
Touré is a columnist for The Daily Beast. He's also an NBC contributor and the author of Never Drank the Kool-Aid, Soul City, and The Portable Promised Land. He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, was CNN's first pop culture correspondent, and was the host of MTV2's Spoke N Heard. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker and the New York Times.
Rapper Jim Jones talks to The Daily Beast's Touré about how the new president-elect inspired him to clean up the language in his music.
Obama was so good at stoking hopes and dreams, but how to possibly meet everyone's expectations? With so many promises on the campaign trail, a lot of voters - among them liberals and the young - are certain to get some disappointment. Here are six angles on what is expected of our new president.
10 Ways Obama Will Update the White House
Sinbad has starred in hit movies like Jingle All the Way, playing opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger; Houseguest, co-starring the late Phil Hartman; and Necessary Roughness, where he did none of his own stunts. He has starred in the television sitcom A Different World as well as his own series, The Sinbad Show.
With a black family moving into the White House, the comedian offers his thoughts on what's likely to change.
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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