The Greatest Filibusters
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.
As Sen. Joe Lieberman threatens to filibuster the Senate health-care bill, The Daily Beast looks back on obstructionism's greatest hits. From presumed poisonings and Roquefort salad dressing recipes to public urination and the 15 hours devoted to saving a typewriter company, the strange and twisted history of the Senate filibuster.
The Republican, a leading Progressive of the era, spoke for 18 hours, setting a Senate record. He stood against a banking bill, which he found too ...
The Fall of the Wall: The Rise of Freedom
Mr. Kimmitt served as Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs from 1989-1991 and American Ambassador to Germany from 1991-1993.
The first U.S. ambassador to a newly unified Germany recounts his memories of the fall of the wall, and looks ahead to a Europe that's just as whole.
A-List Mensa Members
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Today is testing day for the high-IQ society. From Geena Davis to porn star Asia Carrera to a 2-year-old Einstein, VIEW OUR GALLERY of its most famous brainiacs.
Healing the Wounds of Bataan
Michael Norman, is the co-author, with Elizabeth M. Norman, of recently published Tears In the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2009), a book that features Ben Steele and his war art. Michael, a former combat Marine from Vietnam, is an Associate Professor in the Literary Reportage program at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University.
In May, Japan apologized for the Bataan Death March-the torturous trek that killed 2,500 men in 1942. Ever since, the survivors have been debating whether to accept it. By Michael Norman
This Week's Hot Reads
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This week: Cold Warriors, druggie Scottish lit, a man who believes he's Christopher Columbus, an insider account of the Lehman collapse, and a Mad Ave memoir.
The Collyer brothers' house in Harlem, New York, 1942.
Hawaii at 5-0
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The 50th state celebrates its 50th birthday today. From Magnum P.I. to Mauna Loa to Michelle Wie, VIEW OUR GALLERY of the Aloha State.
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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