Michael Moore is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker and author. He directed and produced Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, and Sicko. He has also written seven books, most recently, Mike’s Election Guide 2008.
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Is Obama Too Late?
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Richard Wolffe is Daily Beast columnist and an award-winning journalist. He covered the entire length of Barack Obama's presidential campaign for Newsweek magazine. His book, Renegade: The Making of a President, was published by Crown in June.
Saying there's "no time to waste," Obama scrapped his schedule to meet with 18 world leaders. But Richard Wolffe says it's not clear whether the White House can salvage a deal.
What's Wrong With Winning?
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Mead is the Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World. He writes a blog at The American Interest.
Yes, he's got more words than deeds to his credit. But President Obama's Nobel is a reminder of America's unparalleled power to set the world's agenda.
Hugo and the Hottie
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Bryan Curtis is a senior editor at The Daily Beast. His story about his grandfather’s softball career is in The Best American Sports Writing of 2009.
After Miss Venezuela was crowned the world's most beautiful woman again, the country went wild. So why wasn't Hugo Chavez celebrating? Plus, VIEW OUR GALLERY.
Chavez: I Smell 'Hope' Not 'Sulfur'
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who once called former President George W. Bush the devil, now says with Barack Obama in office "it doesn't smell of sulfur, anymore. Its gone." CNN
A Video History of U.N. Outbursts
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The Daily Beast Video curates the most essential and entertaining video, and brings you original and exclusive productions from our talented contributors.
There may be some friction over climate change at the United Nations, but it's nothing compared to controversies from even the recent past.
The Day Castro Wept
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Ann Louise Bardach is author of Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington and the acclaimed Cuba Confidential. She is Daily Beast contributor, a PEN/USA award winning reporter, a member of the Brookings Institution Cuba Study Project, and was a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and has written for The New York Times, Washington Post Outlook, Los Angeles Times, and The Atlantic. She has appeared on 60 Minutes, Today, and CNN, NPR among others.
In an exclusive excerpt from her new book, Without Fidel, Ann Louise Bardach penetrates the wall of secrecy around the Castro family and reveals the close calls during Fidel's medical crisis.
The Pure Greed of Obama's Phony Health-Care Reform
How Oscars Ruin a Marriage
Nicole LaPorte is a West Coast reporter for The Daily Beast. A former film reporter for Variety, she has also written for The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Observer, and W.
The Courting of Christiane
Rebecca Dana is a senior correspondent for The Daily Beast. A former editor and reporter for the Wall Street Journal, she has also written for the New York Times, the New York Observer, Rolling Stone and Slate, among other publications.
15 Reasons to Watch TV This Spring
Jace Lacob is the writer/editor of Televisionary, a website devoted to television news, criticism, and interviews. Jace resides in Los Angeles. He is a contributor to several entertainment Web sites and can be found on Twitter and Facebook.
The '80s, Part II
Gina Piccalo spent a decade at the Los Angeles Times covering Hollywood. She's now a contributing writer for Los Angeles Magazine and her work has appeared in Elle, More and Emmy. She can be found at ginapiccalo.com.
