Martin Indyk is the vice president and director of foreign policy at The Brookings Institution and author of the recently published Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East (Simon & Schuster 2009).
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Does Anybody Still Like Karl Rove?
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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.
In his new book, the architect of the Bush era is busy trying to spin his boss's troubled legacy. But with even name-brand conservatives taking shots at him, it's an uphill fight.
Rubio's Sharp Right Turn
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Jim DeFede, a longtime South Florida investigative reporter, works for CBS4 News in Miami.
Marco Rubio wouldn't even bill himself as conservative at the outset of his Senate race in Florida. But since CPAC, he's running to the right of Glenn Beck.
February 27: The Week in Viral Videos
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From Kirsten Dunst's Harajuku music video to a My Little Pony musical, a super strong 5-year-old to the science of Chatroulette, watch the buzziest viral videos of the week.
Return of the Confederacy
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John Avlon's new book Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America is available now by Beast Books both on the Web and in paperback. He is also the author of Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics. Previously, he served as chief speechwriter for New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and was a columnist and associate editor for The New York Sun.
They hate Lincoln, the New Deal and desegregation. They love Jefferson Davis, secession, and nullification. Wingnuts author John Avlon on the creepy, growing political force known as Tenthers.
The Buckley Family Feud
Christopher Buckley's first cousin Brent Bozell III is firing back after Buckley dropped a "cluster bomb" on him and the other signers of the Mount Vernon Statement for trying to redefine conservatism. Buckley's real problem, says Bozell, is with the conservative movement itself.
Conservatives, Fired Up
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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.
A frisky, fun keynote by Beck, an encouraging straw poll that left Palin with a happily meager 7 percent-CPAC showed that for better or worse, the GOP is fired up and ready to go.
February 21: 7 Best Moments from Sunday Talk
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Colin Powell warns against Obama-bashing, Arnold calls the GOP hypocrites, and Mitch McConnell weighs in on Tiger Woods and John Edwards. That and more in our Sunday roundup.
Glenn Beck Declares War
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John Avlon's new book Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America is available now by Beast Books both on the Web and in paperback. He is also the author of Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics. Previously, he served as chief speechwriter for New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and was a columnist and associate editor for The New York Sun.
Wingnuts author John Avlon reports from Glenn Beck's rambling CPAC keynote, in which the ultra-conservative talk sensation declared progressivism a "cancer" to be defeated, and compared America to a recovering alcoholic-like himself.
Why Bibi Humiliated Biden
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Women in the World: Day One
Olivia Cole writes for the Spectator and the London Evening Standard. An award-winning poet, her first collection, Restricted View, was published this fall.
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