Sonia Scores a KO
Scott Horton is a law professor and writer on legal and national security affairs for Harper's Magazine and The American Lawyer, among other publications.
Not even the roughest-and most leading-questions from the GOP peanut gallery could derail Obama's Supreme Court nominee Tuesday. As Scott Horton argues, she's cruising toward confirmation.
My Inside Tips for Sonia
Kenneth Duberstein, Ronald Reagan’s White House chief of staff, is now chairman of the Duberstein Group.
How can Sotomayor assure her confirmation? Former Reagan Chief of Staff Ken Duberstein, who guided Kennedy, Souter, and Thomas, shares 10 secrets for a smooth trip to the High Court.
Why Geithner Was Worse Than Daschle
Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele are contributing editors at Vanity Fair and have been writing about taxes for nearly four decades. The investigative reporting team has won two Pulitzer Prizes and two National Magazine Awards. They are the authors of The Great American Tax Dodge, How Spiraling Fraud and Avoidance are Killing Fairness.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting team-and authors of The Great American Tax Dodge-on the breakdown of America's tax system-and why Timothy Geithner's lapses were far more egregious than Tom Daschle's.
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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