Stars Shilling for Charity
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Brangelina launched a jewelry line this week to benefit children in conflict zones. The Daily Beast rounds up the best products-from T-shirts to Timberlands-designed by altruistic A-listers, just in time for the holiday shopping season.
Altruistic A-listers Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt just launched their latest charitable effort-a jewelry line for Asprey. The high-end collection i...
A-List Academies
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Madonna just broke ground on an education center in Malawi, Shakira has one in Colombia, and Andre Agassi's school is a national role model. VIEW OUR GALLERY of stars with classrooms.
Sachs on the Fight Against World Hunger
Matthew Dakotah is conducting a series of interviews with global environmental leaders for The Daily Beast. An award-winning journalist, he has directed 14 magazine and Web site redesigns and worked at Hearst and Emap. As vice president, group editorial director of Homes & Lifestyles Publishing, he initiated coverage of sustainable development and secured contributors from The New York Times, The Washington Post, Architectural Digest and Princeton. Follow Matthew on Twitter: @matthewdakotah.
Jeffrey Sachs talks with The Daily Beast about world hunger, the development models he hopes to see included when President Obama meets with African leaders Tuesday-and why everyone should quit criticizing Madonna for her Malawi adoptions.
With a trip to Haiti and a star turn in North Korea, Bill Clinton has hogged the headlines this summer. So much so that even Hillary seems a little surprised...
Time to Make Nice with Cuba?
Alex von Tunzelmann’s Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire was published last year. She writes a film column for The Guardian Online and is working on a book about the Cold War in the Caribbean.
If Obama embraces his popularity in Cuba and abandons the embargo, the Castros will lose an enemy, the region will embrace us-and it will ruin the place.
Obama's Choice: Appease an Ally or Do the Right Thing
Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, is Presley Professor of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, associate chief of the division of global health equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and a co-founder of Partners In Health, a nonprofit organization that provides free health care and undertakes research and advocacy on behalf of the destitute sick. He is known for helping create innovative community-based approaches to treat HIV/AIDS and TB in resource-poor settings, particularly in Haiti and Rwanda.
France abetted the Rwandan dictatorship and has now made a wrongful arrest. Obama should call them out on it.
Can Obama Solve America's Health Care Crisis?
Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, is Presley Professor of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, associate chief of the division of global health equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and a co-founder of Partners In Health, a nonprofit organization that provides free health care and undertakes research and advocacy on behalf of the destitute sick. He is known for helping create innovative community-based approaches to treat HIV/AIDS and TB in resource-poor settings, particularly in Haiti and Rwanda.
We need safer hospitals, electronic medical records, and dozens more improvements to our antiquated system.
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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