The Missing Pages in Palin's Book
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.
The Alaska governor's new memoir will have no index, robbing D.C. insiders of their favorite game: seeing their names in print. Samuel P. Jacobs on the death of the "Washington Read."
Celebrity Professors
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Money Rules in the New D.C.
Jane Stanton Hitchcock is a playwright and a novelist. Her new novel about Washington society, Mortal Friends was published in July.
Now that Washington, D.C. has replaced New York as the seat of financial power, Jane Stanton Hitchcock argues that each city is all the richer for it.
Tweeting Through the Pain
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As the college rejection letters pour in, Twitter boards are lighting up, proving brevity can be the soul of agony, too. Plus, view our College Admissions topic page.
An Ordinary, Extraordinary Life
Barbara Kantrowitz is a contributing editor at Newsweek and co-author of The Menopause Book (Workman Publishing, 2009).
The son of Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn writes candidly about his learning disabilities, losing his virginity in a brothel-and the loneliness of being different.
Stephen Colbert, NorthwesternStephen Colbert perfected his Method eyebrow raise as a theater major at Northwestern ('86) after transferring from Ha...
Dirty Secrets of College Waitlists
Kathleen Kingsbury covers education for The Daily Beast. She also contributes to Time magazine, where she has covered business, health and education since 2005.
As acceptance letters hit mailboxes, record numbers of students could be stuck in waitlist limbo. In a Daily Beast exclusive, admissions officers dish about the tricks of getting in off the list-and why you shouldn't send cookies.
The Best of the Buzzer Beaters
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From a rookie named Michael Jordan to Christian Laettner's miracle jumper, watch the most heartstopping moments in tournament history.
If you happen to be coming to the inauguration and are tired from hoofing it from place to place in the cold, there is a little hidden oasis at The Shops at Georgetown Park on M Street that you should check out called Meridian Health and...
Bret Baier is the anchor of Special Report With Bret Baier. He formerly served as chief White House correspondent for the Fox News Channel.
If you're going to be in Washington, D.C. for the inauguration and are planning on eating, you're in luck. The city has far more good restaurants than its reputation suggests. The oldest, and still one of the best, is Martin's Tavern on ...
Tucker Carlson is a contributor to the Fox News Channel. He previously hosted The Situation with Tucker Carlson and Tucker on MSNBC after working for CNN.
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.
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.
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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