Dashing an American Dream
Lauren Barack writes on subjects from Twitter to identity theft, Bollywood to childcare. She received the Loeb Award for online journalism in 2009. Her work has appeared in Newsweek, Wired, Parenting magazine, MSN Money, the St. Petersburg Times, and The Independent among other publications. She lives in Manhattan with her husband, 6-year-old daughter and a school of fish.
Alyssa Katz's new book, Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us, traces the mortgage crisis through tragic vignettes and clueless acts of hedonism.
Now Pitching, Number 44...
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President Obama threw out the first pitch at the All-Stars Game Tuesday and just barely reached his goal of getting it over the plate thanks to a helping hand from Albert Pujols, who moved up to catch the ball when it fell slightly short. How did he do compared to the heat of George W. Bush and Hoover-or the jelly arm of Jimmy Carter?
President Obama threw out the first pitch at the MLB All-Star baseball game in St. Louis on July 14, 2009. He just barely reached his goal of getti...
GOP R.I.P.
John Batchelor is radio host of the John Batchelor Show in New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
Conservative radio host John Batchelor says it's obvious: His Republican Party is a corpse. And its response to the financial crisis reveals how and when it died.
Washington's stimulus-spenders should make sure they read Amity Shlaes' The Forgotten Man as a cautionary tale. It's caused many economic policy wonks to take a new look at the complex causes of the Great Depression and the ways in which...
Margaret Hoover is an American conservative feminist, political commentator, Republican strategist, and blogger. She is the great-granddaughter of former President Herbert Hoover. Most recently, she has worked as Deputy Finance Director to Rudy Giuliani’s Presidential Exploratory Committee. She is a frequent contributor to Fox News's O'Reilly Factor.
Is the Worst Yet to Come?
Charles Gasparino is CNBC's On-Air Editor and appears as a daily member of CNBC's ensemble. He is a columnist for the Daily Beast and a frequent contributor to the New York Post, Forbes, and other publications. His forthcoming book about the financial crisis, The Sellout, is scheduled to be published later in 2009.
As the Dow sinks to a 12-year low, it's becoming clear even to Obama supporters on Wall Street that his reckless agenda will make a bad situation worse.
Two Men Blind to History
Harold Evans, author of two histories of America, is writing his memoir. Editor at large of The Week, he was editor of The Sunday Times from 1967-81 and The Times from 1981-82, founding editor of Condé Nast Traveler, and president of Random House Trade Group from 1990-97.
Both FDR and Herbert Hoover failed to end the Great Depression. Obama and McCain need to understand why.
What Obama and McCain Can Learn From FDR
Harold Evans, author of two histories of America, is writing his memoir. Editor at large of The Week, he was editor of The Sunday Times from 1967-81 and The Times from 1981-82, founding editor of Condé Nast Traveler, and president of Random House Trade Group from 1990-97.
When Roosevelt took office in 1931, he faced a banking crisis much like the one our next commander in chief will face. His strategy may have been radical, but it worked.
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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