Real Housewives, Real Problems
Amy Kaufman is an assistant editor at The Daily Beast. A former reporter for The Wrap, she has also written for the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times.
As their fifth season begins, The Real Housewives of Orange County tell The Daily Beast how they've been forced to downsize their lifestyles-firing maids, selling McMansions, and paying off facelifts.
Fresh Picks
Ted and Matt Lee, who call themselves the Lee Bros, have written two cookbooks about southern cooking that not only garnered rave reviews, but explained how they learned “to cook southern without a southern grandmother.” They founded The Lee Bros. Boiled Peanuts Catalogue and are wine columnists for Martha Stewart Living. The Lee brothers’ website is www.mattleeandtedlee.com.
The soul-food cooking Lee brothers tell us what they're loving right now.
Your Move, Mr. Putin
Obama's decision to drop the planned missile shield in Eastern Europe is hardly a bow to the Kremlin-the program will continue on a larger scale. The real question, says Michael Idov, concerns Putin's side of the bargain.
Tennis' New All-American Sweetheart
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.
The feisty teenager from Marietta, Ga. has vaulted into the quarterfinals at the U.S. Open, dispatching elite Russians Maria Sharapova, Elena Dementieva, and Nadia Petrova along the way.
Seventeen-year-old Melanie Oudin of Marietta, Ga., serves to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia during the first round of the U.S. Open on Sept. 1.
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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