Taking on Teddy's Cause
Margaret Carlson is a columnist for Bloomberg News. She was a columnist and deputy Washington bureau chief for Time magazine.
One American political dynasty has passed the torch to another. Margaret Carlson on how West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller is assuming Ted Kennedy's health-care mantle.
Can This Woman Fill Teddy's Shoes?
Samuel P. Jacobs is a staff reporter at The Daily Beast. He has also written for The Boston Globe, The New York Observer, and The New Republic Online.
Massachusetts has its first open Senate seat in more than 20 years. So why are the biggest names in state politics steering clear? Maybe AG Martha Coakley has scared them all away.
Five Fall Feuds
Samuel P. Jacobs is a staff reporter at The Daily Beast. He has also written for The Boston Globe, The New York Observer, and The New Republic Online.
To hell with the halcyon days of summer. It's time to rumble. The Daily Beast sizes up the best political smackdowns of the coming season.
Why the Lion of the Left Was Right
Meghan McCain is a columnist for The Daily Beast. Originally from Phoenix, she graduated from Columbia University in 2007. She is a New York Times bestselling children's author, previously wrote for Newsweek magazine, and created the Web site mccainblogette.com.
The Daily Beast's Meghan McCain on what senators of both parties-and tomorrow's politicians-can learn from the life and career of Ted Kennedy.
As Congress returns from August recess one senator short, all eyes are on Massachusetts where the state legislature is scrambling to replace Kennedy, and an ambitious set of would-be senators are lining up to run.
Kennedy in the Land of Apartheid
Leslie Dach, executive vice president of corporate affairs and government relations for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., is a former Democratic Party operative who worked for Ted Kennedy as an advance man.
Leslie Dach, a former staffer to Senator Ted Kennedy, recalls a 1985 trip to South Africa, where the government's attempts to sabotage the senator's trip failed in the face of Kennedy's tenacity.
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.
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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