Don't Keep Troops From the Fight
Lieutenant Dan Choi graduated West Point in 2003. He is an Iraq combat veteran, Infantry officer, and fluent Arabic speaker. Choi is the co-founder of Knights Out, a group of gay and lesbian West Point grads and their allies. He has been recommended for discharge after coming out publicly as gay earlier this year.
Donna McAleer graduated West Point in 1987 and served as a Military Police Officer. She is the author of the forthcoming book Porcelain on Steel: Women of West Point’s Long Gray Line.
With talk of a surge in Afghanistan, it's time to repeal military policies that keep gays and women off the battlefield.
Memo to Congress: Buy More Jets
Duff McDonald is a contributing editor at New York magazine and a former contributing editor at Condé Nast Portfolio. His book, Last Man Standing, about Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, was published by Simon & Schuster in October.
As a chastened House drops plans to order $550 million worth of private jets, Duff McDonald argues that shiny new planes are the only way America should be ferrying its leaders.
Busting the Torture Myths
Scott Horton is a law professor and writer on legal and national security affairs for Harper's Magazine and The American Lawyer, among other publications.
Scott Horton, who has led coverage of Bush-era wrongdoing, exposes three pervasive myths-and the surprising reason Cheney and Rove are keeping the issue alive.
What's in the Torture Memos
The Daily Beast is dedicated to news and commentary, culture, and entertainment. We carefully curate the web’s most essential stories and bring you original must-reads from our talented contributors.
A guide to horrifying revelations in the latest batch of memos, from insects to "walling."
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.
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
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.
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.
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