What to Know About Airline Safety Records
Clive Irving is senior consulting editor at Condé Nast Traveler, specializing in aviation.
The Daily Beast's Clive Irving responds to the ranking of the best and worst airline safety records-and offers his own suggestions for concerned fliers.
How Safe Is Your Airline?
Rudy Maxa, a long-time consumer travel commentator, is host and executive producer of “Rudy Maxa’s World,” on public television and a contributing editor with National Geographic Traveler.
The Daily Beast crunches the numbers to rank the best and worst safety records. Plus, which seats and parts of the flight are the most perilous.
Getting Whipped at Leather Pride
Spencer Morgan is a freelance writer living in Brooklyn. His column Men of Manhattan appears in the New York Observer. He is a contributing editor at Playboy magazine.
As this weekend's gay pride parades rise to new heights of respectability, The Daily Beast goes off the beaten path to attend "Leather Pride Day," an old-school, X-rated orgy of outrageous behavior.
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.
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.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
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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.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
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