The Boys Under the Bus
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.
White House Counsel Greg Craig was just the latest Obama loyalist to be sacrificed for political expediency. Lloyd Grove tallies up the body count so far.
Famous College Roommates
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Scalia's Catholic Betrayal
Professor Alan M. Dershowitz is Brooklyn native who has been called “the nation’s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer” and one of its “most distinguished defenders of individual rights.” He is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He has also published more than 100 articles in magazines and journals, and more than 300 of his articles have appeared in syndication in 50 national daily newspapers. Professor Dershowitz is the author of 27 fiction and nonfiction works.
The Supreme Court justice's shocking remarks about capital punishment are not just a distortion of the Constitution, says Alan Dershowitz, they're also an outrage against his church.
The Court's Other Diversity Problem
Paul Campos is a professor of law at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Rarer than a lesbian or Latino on the bench: a justice who didn't go to Harvard or Yale. While other speculate on the race and gender of Justice Souter's replacement, Paul Campos explains that SCOTUS' real diversity problem is career path and class, and it wasn't always this way.
The Obama Girls' First Day of School
Baratunde Thurston is a conscious comic and a vigilante pundit who works as an editor for The Onion. He co-founded and writes under the name Jack Turner for Jack & Jill Politics, billed as “a black bourgeoisie perspective on US politics.”
As the first daughters begin classes at Sidwell Friends, the author reflects on his time as one of its few black students.
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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