In Bed with Warlords
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.
Drop the phony outrage over the CIA hiring a suspected drug dealer in Kabul's first family. Walter Russell Mead on why saving Afghanistan means cutting nasty deals with shady people.
Ted Kennedy's confidant and former aide, Paul Kirk, has been named interim senator. As a placeholder, he's in good company: The Daily Beast looks at six notables who answered the call of duty-until someone better came along.
Ellroy's American Underworld
Nathaniel Rich reviews crime master James Ellroy's latest novel, Blood's A Rover, and explores his weird vision of '60s America.
Drop the Bomb, Obama
James Carroll's recent book is Practicing Catholic, a story of American belief. He is a columnist for the Boston Globe and Distinguished-Scholar-in-Residence at Suffolk University. His other books include An American Requiem, which won the National Book Award, House of War, winner of the PEN-Galbraith Award, and Constantine's Sword, now an acclaimed documentary.
When he addresses the U.N. Security Council Thursday, the president will repeat the shocking proposal John Kennedy made a half-century ago: Get rid of nuclear weapons-forever.
Ellroy's Favorite Crime Reads
James Ellroy shares with The Daily Beast why these novels of bloody and infamous crimes are his favorites. His new book, Blood's A Rover, is out this week.
by Don DeLillo 480 Pages Penguin $15 "The metaphysical treatise on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, largely seen through the eyes of the ...
Teddy Reveals All, Almost
Adam Clymer is a former Chief Washington Correspondent of the New York Times and author of Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography.
Kennedy biographer Adam Clymer on True Compass' revelations (Lyndon Johnson blamed the FBI for JFK's death) and omissions (Chappaquiddick's effect on his career).
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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