Sarah Palin, the Musical
Tina Brown is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast. She is the author of the 2007 New York Times best seller The Diana Chronicles. Brown is the former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Talk magazines and host of CNBC's Topic A with Tina Brown.
The media is ecstatic that the Palin show is playing again. And the timing of Going Rogue may be just right.
November 15, 2009: Top 7 Moments From Sunday Talk
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Liz Cheney floats the idea of her father in 2012, David Brooks goes rogue on Sarah Palin, and Hillary weighs in on running for New York governor. That and more in our Sunday roundup.
I really like some of Matt Taibbi's articles on the financial meltdown and Michael Lewis', too. I thought David Brooks had a good column recently in The New York Times. Brooks was talking about how he was listening to an NPR radio show c...
Academy Award winner Matt Damon has starred in films such as Good Will Hunting, which he co-wrote with Ben Affleck, The Good Shepherd, The Bourne and Oceans film series and the upcoming The Informant. He is also involved with a number of charities including the ONE Campaign, H20 Africa Foundation and Water.org.
The Week in Outrageous News
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Though the week was dominated by Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court hearing, there were plenty of other memorable moments, from David Brooks' inappropriate PDA to Barney Frank's saucy Daily Show appearance. Here are nine of our favorites.
David Brooks' Wacky Overshare
New York Times columnist David Brooks claimed that an unnamed Republican senator felt him up at a dinner in an unusual interview Friday on MSNBC.
Leave Iran to the Iranians
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.
As experts clash on how to deal with Iran's turmoil, Leslie H. Gelb says Obama is right to keep his distance-this is what Iranians want, and they have smart, sophisticated reasons for it.
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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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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