Strategy? What Strategy?
Stephen Holmes is professor of law and research director of the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law. His most recent book is Matador’s Cape: America’s Reckless Response to Terror.
Gen. Stanley McChrystal's advice to the president is driving debate on what America should do next in Afghanistan. But, Stephen Holmes argues, the emperor has no clothes.
Scarborough for President
As vice chairman of Public Strategies and president of Maverick Media, Mark McKinnon has helped meet strategic challenges for candidates, corporations and causes, including George W. Bush, John McCain, Governor Ann Richards, Charlie Wilson, Lance Armstrong, and Bono. McKinnon is co-chair of Arts & Labs, a collaboration between technology and creative communities that have embraced today's rich Internet environment to deliver innovative and creative digital products to consumers.
Fall brings some dark horses into Mark McKinnon's 2012 GOP contender rankings, including a general (Petraeus), a whack job (Bachmann) and a congressman-turned-TV host: Joe Scarborough.
Waiting for Reagan
Nicolle Wallace served as a senior adviser to the McCain-Palin campaign from May to November 2008. She served President George W. Bush as an assistant to the president and director of communications for the White House, as well as communications director for President Bush's 2004 campaign.
The GOP doesn't need any more soul-searching, writes Nicolle Wallace. It needs a larger-than-life hero to lead it back to victory. Who? How about Gen. Petreaus? Or Gary Sinise?
Top 6 Moments from Sunday Talk
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McCain throws Palin under the Straight Talk Express, Paul Krugman remains a thorn in Obama's side, and Robert Gates is nonplussed by North Korea. Watch the best moments from Sunday's talk shows.
Obama's Wrong About Iraq
Benjamin Sarlin is a reporter for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.
Today, the president announced he would pull all combat troops out of Iraq by August 2010. Thomas Ricks, author of an acclaimed new book about the war, thinks that's a pipe dream and that Obama is suffering a case of Bush-like optimism.
Joe Biden's Empty Words
Mark Salter is the former chief of staff to Senator John McCain and senior adviser to the McCain for President campaign.
In his first international speech, the vice president promised a new day and a new tone. But when it came to America's policy on Iran, Russia, and the Middle East, he offered little more than atmospherics.
Iraq Is Deadly Again
Russ Hoyle is the author of Going to War (Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2008), a detailed account of the 18-month run-up to the Iraq war. He is a former senior editor at the New York Daily News, Time, and the New Republic. Hoyle is at work on a new book about counterinsurgency and the U.S. military.
Bad news for President Obama. Iraq is wilting under a rash of suicide attacks and sectarian violence that has made the "gains" of the previous year look illusory.
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.
The Daily Beast Video curates the most essential and entertaining video, and brings you original and exclusive productions from our talented contributors.
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.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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