Are Jews Really Liberal?
Daphne Merkin was a staff writer for The New Yorker and is currently a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and Elle. She is the author of a novel, Enchantment, and a collection of essays, Dreaming of Hitler.
In time for the High Holidays, Daphne Merkin examines the hot air rhetoric in Norman Podhoretz's new polemic, Why Are Jews Liberal?, and comes away unconvinced.
The GOP Game Plan for 2010
Denis Calabrese is founder of the Patriot Group, a Texas-based consulting firm working to advance a conservative agenda in business and politics.
The Democrats have hit the skids. Republican hopes are rising. Denis Calabrese on four ways the GOP can win back independents-and send a shockwave through Washington in the next election.
The Speech of His Life—Again
Eric Alterman is a professor of English and journalism at Brooklyn College and a professor of journalism at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. He is the author, most recently, of Why We're Liberals: A Handbook for Restoring America's Important Ideals.
Liberals are suspicious. The GOP is wailing on him. Congress is paralyzed. Eric Alterman on what's at stake on health care-and why all is not yet lost.
The Right-Wing Op-Ed Insurgency
Samuel P. Jacobs is a staff reporter at The Daily Beast. He has also written for The Boston Globe, The New York Observer, and The New Republic Online.
Liberal bias? A Daily Beast investigation crunches the numbers and shows how conservative think tanks have quietly achieved domination over the opinion pages of America's biggest papers.
Ensign's Sex-Scandal Enabler?
Max Blumenthal is a senior writer for The Daily Beast, writing fellow at The Nation Institute and author of Republican Gomorrah (Basic/Nation Books). Contact him at maxblumenthal3000@yahoo.com.
Senator Tom Coburn knew of John Ensign's affair 16 months ago-and concealed it from the public. But what, Max Blumenthal asks, did the conservative moral crusader tell his friend in private?
7 Best Moments from Sunday Talk
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Colin Powell blasts Rush, Bill Maher weighs in on his feud with Fox News, and an apology is demanded of Newt Gingrich. That and more highlights from our roundup of Sunday's talk shows.
Limbaugh Mocks David Brooks
It's not the biggest intra-media feud going, but Rush Limbaugh has some fun with David Brooks' recent appearance on Charlie Rose, on which Brooks called Obama a 'competent manager.'
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.
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.
Jeff Madrick is a contributor to the New York Review of Books and a former economics columnist for the New York Times. He is editor of Challenge Magazine, visiting professor of humanities at Cooper Union, and senior fellow at the New School's Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis. He is the author of Taking America, The End of Affluence (Random House) and The Case for Big Government.
Jolie hunt is the global head of public relations for Thomson Reuters, appointed April 2008. Prior to that she served as global director of corporate and business affairs for IBM Corporation She was the director of PR for the Financial Times. She lives between New York and London.
John Barrasso is the junior senator from Wyoming.
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.
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