Why You Love Being Scared of Swine Flu
Kent Sepkowitz is an infectious disease specialist in New York City. He has contributed to The New York Times, Slate, and, oh-so-briefly, O Magazine. He also writes academic medical articles that are at times pretty tough sledding.
You loved the original Swine Flu-now get ready for Swine Flu 2: The Revenge! This fall, as the media ramps up the influenza hype, you'll be terrified-and riveted-for the same reason you love horror movies.
Why Obamacare Scares America
Conor Friedersdorf, a Daily Beast columnist, also writes for The American Scene and The Atlantic Online's ideas blog.
Listen to your grandmother. The Democrats' new health-care plan may benefit working class folks, but the president's sales pitch is giving them a heart attack.
Will Americans Flee Mexico?
San Francisco-based writer Laura Fraser is the author of the best-selling travel memoir An Italian Affair, and the upcoming sequel All Over the Map. She is a contributing editor at More, and last year won the International Association of Culinary Professionals Bert Greene Award for Essay Writing.
Amid the flu hysteria, Americans currently south of the border weigh the risks of leaving town or staying put. Laura Fraser reports from her part-time home in San Miguel de Allende.
The Bag Lady Papers Cont'd
Alexandra Penney is an artist, best-selling author, former editor-in-chief of Self magazine, and originator, with Evelyn Lauder, of the Pink Ribbon for breast cancer awareness. She had a one-person show at Galerie in Berlin in April and her work was shown at Miami’s Art Basel. She lives in New York, has one treasured son in Los Angeles and more amazing friends than could ever be imagined.
Alexandra Penney lost her life savings in the Bernie Madoff debacle. In a new post on her Daily Beast blog, she writes about her shaky future, losing her health insurance-and Domino's Pizza sticker shock.
With all the palpable fear and panic in these parts, what's a masochist to do other than pick up Joanna Bourke's masterful Fear: A Cultural History. It's a sobering romp (that's no oxymoron) through decades of fear's grim manifestations....
Adam Hanft is a decoder of the consumer culture and our branded planet. He blogs for The Huffington Post and FastCompany.com. He is also the co-author of Dictionary of the Future and is founder and CEO of the marketing and branding firm Hanft Raboy. Follow him at Twitter.com/hanft.
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.
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.
Charles Gasparino is CNBC's on-air editor and appears as a daily member of CNBC's ensemble. He is a columnist for The Daily Beast and a frequent contributor to the New York Post, Forbes, and other publications. His new book about the financial crisis, The Sellout, was published by HarperBusiness.
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