The Obama HOPE Photo Mystery Continues!
James Danziger was the director of photography at the London Sunday Times Magazine, features editor of Vanity Fair, and director of Magnum New York. He runs the gallery Danziger Projects in New York and blogs at The Year in Pictures.
After months of searching, I identified the photographer behind the picture that became the campaign's most enduring image. Even he didn't know he had taken it.
Obama: Our Resolve Will Be Tested
Repeating themes we've heard often since his election, President-elect Obama spoke Sunday of the historical significance of our time, and the difficulties ahead.
Obama was so good at stoking hopes and dreams, but how to possibly meet everyone's expectations? With so many promises on the campaign trail, a lot of voters - among them liberals and the young - are certain to get some disappointment. Here are six angles on what is expected of our new president.
What a Powerful World This Will Be
Zane is the New York Times Bestselling author of ten titles including: Dear G Spot: Straight Talk About Sex and Love, Afterburn, Gettin’ Buck Wild: The Sex Chronicles 2, Addicted, and The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth. Zane is the Publisher of Strebor Books International. She wrote and produced her first film Addicted, being released Spring 2009. Zane will launch her body product line in the fall of 2008 followed by her clothing and adult toy lines in the spring of 2009.
Americans have decided that being different is a blessing, not a curse.
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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