Obama Promise Unfulfilled on Cuba
Ted Piccone is a senior fellow and deputy director for foreign policy at The Brookings Institution.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner is practicing Cuban politics as usual: The Brookings Institution's Ted Piccone on how Obama's new course of multilateral engagement isn't changing anything between Washington and Havana.
Slamming the Door on Gitmo
It was years in the making, and it was largely overlooked. But the Senate Tuesday night finally cleared the path for Guantanamo Bay detainees to be tried in federal court.
Since it's clear Fidel Castro has decreed that he will NOT die, Cuba's teeming, restless youth have found a new weapon. And they are giving the convalescent-in-chief a lot of headaches. It's no longer Patria o Muerte but rather something...
Ann Louise Bardach is author of Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington and the acclaimed Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana. She is a PEN/USA award winning reporter and was a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and has written for The New York Times, Washington Post Outlook, Los Angeles Times, and The Atlantic. She has appeared on 60 Minutes, Today, and CNN, among others.
Castro Family Values
Ann Louise Bardach is author of Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington and the acclaimed Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana. She is a PEN/USA award winning reporter and was a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and has written for The New York Times, Washington Post Outlook, Los Angeles Times, and The Atlantic. She has appeared on 60 Minutes, Today, and CNN, among others.
A first wife exiled for decades and a "tribe" of children by several women. An exclusive excerpt from Ann Louise Bardach's new book, Without Fidel, offers glimpses into Fidel Castro's off-limits personal life.
The Day Castro Wept
Ann Louise Bardach is author of Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington and the acclaimed Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana. She is a PEN/USA award winning reporter and was a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and has written for The New York Times, Washington Post Outlook, Los Angeles Times, and The Atlantic. She has appeared on 60 Minutes, Today, and CNN, among others.
In an exclusive excerpt from her new book, Without Fidel, Ann Louise Bardach penetrates the wall of secrecy around the Castro family and reveals the close calls during Fidel's medical crisis.
Just the Fact: Hemingway's Hand Grenades
Terry Mort studied with Hemingway’s official biographer, Carlos Baker, at Princeton. He served as an officer in the Navy and spent three years on active duty, including a deployment to Vietnam and subsequent patrols of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. He is the author of three novels as well as a book on fly-fishing and has edited works by Mark Twain, Jack London and Zane Grey.
Authors tell The Daily Beast about the most surprising factoid in their books. This week, Terry Mort on Ernest Hemingway's hare-brained habit of chasing U-boats with a sack full of small bombs.
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.
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.
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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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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