The arrest of North Carolina men who allegedly trained with Islamic jihadists raises new questions about home-grown terror. The Daily Beast on how scared you should really be.
Why Flu Is a National Crisis
Michael Chertoff was the second Secretary of Homeland Security. He previously served as the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division at the Department of Justice. As Assistant Attorney General, he oversaw the investigation of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He also formed the Enron Task Force. He is currently senior of counsel for Covington & Burling LLP's Washington, DC office and a member of the White Collar Defense and Investigations practice group.
Dr. J. Bennet Waters is clinical assistant professor in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and former chief of staff, Office of Health Affairs, United States Department of Homeland Security.
Treating a pandemic like a health problem isn't just bad policy, the former Homeland Security secretary warns-it's dangerous.
The Next Global Panic
Joshua Cooper Ramo is Managing Director and a partner at Kissinger Associates, one of the world's leading strategic advisory firms. Prior to joining Kissinger Associates, he was Assistant Managing Editor of Time and worked in the advisory and banking business in China.
The arrival of swine flu at Obama's 100-day mark signals the challenges that will define his presidency. From financial panic to Islamic fundamentalism, a new wave of dangers is sweeping the planet. Joshua Cooper Ramo, author of The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us and What We Can Do About It, reports.
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.
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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.
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