Vidal Kicks Up Dust Again
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.
Trouble was on the agenda when the aging provocateur, infamous for his tough remarks on Israel, visited a Jewish cultural hub last night. But as Lloyd Grove reports, Vidal charmed the critics.
Why Mouthing Off Is All the Rage
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.
With everyone on such a short fuse, no Obama Sunday talk marathon is going to calm anyone down.
In sharing a beer with Skip Gates and James Crowley, Obama is joining a long tradition of presidents who indulged in the occasional drink. From FDR mixing martinis with Stalin to Nixon hitting the bottle during a nuclear alert, we offer you the greatest moments in presidential mixology.
Political Affairs
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Senator John Ensign joins a notable fraternity of men with presidential ambitions who have also had famous indiscretions. From Sally Hemings to Monica Lewinsky, VIEW OUR GALLERY of famous mistresses.
JFK's rumored mistress was the source of most of the chatter surrounding their relationship. Although she maintained that they had a two-year affai...
Presidential Drag Gallery
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Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid are now signed to play Bill and Hillary in an upcoming HBO film penned by Frost/Nixon screenwriter Peter Morgan. VIEW OUR GALLERY of famous presidential impersonators.
Spreading the Wealth Around
Cass R. Sunstein is Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and author of Nudge; he is an occasional, informal adviser to the Obama campaign.
To suggest that "redistribution" is a dirty word is a terrible insult to American history-and to the democratic process itself.
Limits of a First Term
Thomas H. Geoghegan is a Chicago lawyer and author. Geoghegan is author of See You In Court: How the Right Turned America Into a Lawsuit Nation (2007).
History suggests the change Obama promises won't happen unless he's reelected in 2012.
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.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
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.
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.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
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