First Lady Faceoff
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Michelle Obama, Carla Bruni, and Japan's space-traveling first lady are making Pittsburgh fabulous this week. VIEW OUR GALLERY of sizzling G-20 wives-and Angela Merkel's husband.
The Best of Jackie O
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On what would have been her 80th birthday, the Daily Beast celebrates the life and inimitable style of an American icon. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
Obama's G-8 Trip
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The president has a full agenda with international leaders at this week's G-8 summit. View our gallery of their roundtable meetings and his arrival with Michelle in Italy.
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama meet with Pope Benedict XVI, Friday, July 10, 2009, at the Vatican.
The 10 Foxiest First Ladies
Piers Morgan worked as a gossip columnist for the Sun before going on to edit the News of the World and then the Daily Mirror, where he stayed until 2004 when he was sacked following his decision to publish photos of British soldiers apparently abusing Iraqi prisoners of war. Since then, he shot to fame as a judge on the top-rated show America's Got Talent and was the first winner of Celebrity Apprentice. His new book, God Bless America: Misadventures of a Big Mouth Brit has just been published.
From Grace Coolidge and Helen Taft to Jackie O and Michelle O, Britain's Got Talent judge Piers Morgan ranks the hottest presidential spouses in American history.
A surprising choice, some might say. But there's always been something oddly sexy about Hillary's waspish temper, ferocious intelligence, and fight...
The Ultimate Ladies Lunch
Liz Goodwin is an assistant editor at The Daily Beast. She has written for the New York Sun, GothamSchools, the Tico Times, and Fodor's Travel Guides.
Danielle Friedman has worked as a nonfiction book editor for Hudson Street Press and Plume, two imprints of Penguin Group. Her writing has been published in the Miami Herald, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and on CNN.com. She is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Michelle Obama hosted Nancy Reagan for lunch at The White House today. VIEW OUR GALLERY of first lady friends and frenemies, past and present.
The two met for lunch today and were expected to talk about life in the White House, and how Michelle should use her role as First Lady. Reagan fel...
The First Ladies of Africa Make History
Anita McBride served in the Administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush and served as Chief of Staff to first lady Laura Bush from 2005 to 2009.
Thirteen first ladies of African nations met in L.A. for the first meeting of its kind about how to improve the lives of struggling women and children on their continent. Anita B. McBride, Laura Bush's former chief of staff, reports they are unexpected experts on the issues.
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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