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Talking candidly at the Women in the World conference, Madeleine Albright had nothing but harsh words for the Bush administration's legacy, saying President Obama would need to be godlike-literally...

by Samuel P. Jacobs

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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.

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Rush Limbaugh says he's moving to Costa Rica if health care passes. He joins an illustrious group of celebrities who've declared they're packing their bags over politics: Alec Baldwin, Barbra Streisand, even Eddie Vedder. VIEW OUR GALLERY.

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Courage and Consequence hits stores today, and it's full of insights into the inner workings of the Bush administration. The Daily Beast presents the 10 best revelations.

by Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias is a Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. He is the author of Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats.

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Listening to Republicans squawk about Obama's use of reconciliation for health reform, you'd never know Bush used the same route to cut taxes. Matthew Yglesias on an outrageous conservative media coup.

by Lloyd Grove

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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.

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In his new book, the architect of the Bush era is busy trying to spin his boss's troubled legacy. But with even name-brand conservatives taking shots at him, it's an uphill fight.

by Leslie H. Gelb

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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.

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The president's foreign-policy team has been remarkably conflict-free. Leslie H. Gelb on why internal strife might make better policy.