Sarah Drops the Act
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.
Now that Palin has stopped pretending to be a politician, she's back to being, uh, whatever she was before.
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.
Trillion Is the New Billion
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Bush was a disaster at cutting spending, but under Obama the U.S. deficit is $1.8 trillion and the cost of health-care reform is $829 billion. These numbers are going to sink us, says Christopher Buckley. WATCH VIDEO.
If Only Obama's Performance Mattered More
Rick Perlstein is the author, most recently, of Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America.
The last year has taught a hard lesson about the power of a determined minority to keep the majority in check. Forty senators representing about 9 percent of Americans can filibuster Obama's initiatives-and the media declares him a failure.
You Can't Ask for More
Ted Widmer directs the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. He was a speechwriter and senior adviser to President Clinton.
For the vast middle of this country, and the even vaster populations that lie beyond it, it has been a relatively good year.
Dangers Come After Year One
Dr. Larry J. Sabato is the university professor of politics at the University of Virginia and director of the Center for Politics, founded at UVA in 1998 to improve civic education and the political process. Sabato's political analysis can be found at the Crystal Ball. The author of more than 20 books, his most recent is The Year of Obama: How Barack Obama Won the White House.
History has taught us not to take presidential first years too seriously: No one foresaw how Vietnam would doom LBJ or Watergate would unhorse Nixon.
No Messiah, but a Good Swimmer
Katrina vanden Heuvel is The Nation's editor and publisher. She is the co-editor of Taking Back America—And Taking Down the Radical Right and editor of The Dictionary of Republicanisms.
Denouncing the Obama administration's missteps or worse doesn't get us far-it promotes exactly what the president's adversaries seek: his political disempowerment.
Obama Haters Go Viral
John P. Avlon writes a column for The Daily Beast and is author of the forthcoming Attack of the Wingnuts, to be published in January by Beast Books. He is also the author of Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics. Previously, he served as chief speechwriter for New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and was a columnist and associate editor for The New York Sun.
Anti-Obama conspiracy theorists are gaining momentum with a new video clamoring for the president's birth certificate. John Avlon on how the roots of the "Birther" movement lie in the 2008 campaign.
7 Signs We Have a New First Family
From Lower East Side filmmaker Jack Furious, a fun look back at some of the truly unambiguous signs from the past year that a new family is in the White House.
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.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
Jolie hunt is the global head of public relations for Thomson Reuters, appointed April 2008. Prior to that she served as global director of corporate and business affairs for IBM Corporation She was the director of PR for the Financial Times. She lives between New York and London.
John Barrasso is the junior senator from Wyoming.
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.
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