My Martha's Vineyard Close Encounter
Patricia J. Williams is the author of The Alchemy of Race and Rights; The Rooster's Egg; and Seeing a ColorBlind Future: The Paradox of Race. She is a also a columnist for The Nation.
As Obama's holiday ends, longtime summer resident Patricia Williams reflects on vacationing within arm's length of the first family-and Sen. Kennedy's profound effect on this tiny island.
Why Congress Needs an iPhone
Chris Regan is a comedy writer who won five Emmy Awards while working on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," and he currently writes for "Frank TV" on TBS and "Talkshow with Spike Feresten" at Fox. He was one of the co-authors of the best-selling America: The Book, and his latest humor book, Mass Historia: 365 Days of Historical Facts and (Mostly) Fictions was recently published by Andrews McMeel.
Essential new apps for philandering legislators, lobbyist lapdogs, and Joe Lieberman.
My Night With Sean Penn
Peace Mom and congressional candidate in California's 8th District.
Congressional candidate and "peace mom" Cindy Sheehan was Sean Penn's date at the Milk world premiere on Tuesday night. And she went there looking for a fight.
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.
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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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