The Obama Conspiracy Theorists
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The obsession over the president's birth certificate won't quit. The Daily Beast's full coverage of the birther movement, including John Batchelor on Republican incoherence, Mark McKinnon on Obama's all-American story, Samuel P. Jacobs on five Birther myths debunked, and Benjamin Sarlin on presidential conspiracy theories through the years.
Will the Birthers Doom the GOP?
John Batchelor is radio host of the John Batchelor Show in New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
The GOP, reduced to hosting loonies who obsess over Obama's birthplace, is slipping into the ash heap. The Daily Beast's John Batchelor on why Republican incoherence may doom the party to the fate of the Whigs.
Attack of the Zombie Republicans
John Batchelor is radio host of the John Batchelor Show in New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
The GOP's living dead won't stop haunting their party, says lifelong Republican John Batchelor. Now Rush, Newt, and Dick are doing what zombies do best: laying waste to everyone's brains.
Yikes, What Does the GOP Do Now?
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As the GOP's troubles escalate into panic with no sign of a turnaround on the horizon, Daily Beast contributors weigh in on what it will take to rebuild the party.
GOP R.I.P.
John Batchelor is radio host of the John Batchelor Show in New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
Conservative radio host John Batchelor says it's obvious: His Republican Party is a corpse. And its response to the financial crisis reveals how and when it died.
Judd Gregg Is a Wimp!
John Batchelor is radio host of the John Batchelor Show in New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
The surprise withdrawal of the Commerce nominee is another blow for Obama. But The Daily Beast's John Batchelor says it's the GOP that should be embarrassed.
Sticking It to Rahm
John Batchelor is radio host of the John Batchelor Show in New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
From their shared loathing of the White House chief of staff to the insurgency led by the minority leader, the inside story of why not a single House Republican supported the President's stimulus package.
The Right Hearts Hillary
John Batchelor is radio host of the John Batchelor Show in New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
Why are conservatives so pleased that Mrs. Clinton will be secretary of state? She beats the alternatives.
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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