As John Edwards' former mistress, Rielle Hunter, testifies before a grand jury in the campaign payoff probe, The Daily Beast consults experts on how the feds could nail him.
The Mystery Man of the Edwards Affair
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.
As Elizabeth Edwards talks (and talks) about her husband's affair, The Daily Beast's Bryan Curtis provides an exclusive look at one central character who remains a cipher.
What's in the Fabloids
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Farrah's spending her final days with Ryan O'Neal, John and Elizabeth Edwards are living apart, and Jon and Kate are still not doing so great. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
Elizabeth Edwards Fed Herself to the Vultures
Tina Brown is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast. She is the author of the 2007 New York Times best seller The Diana Chronicles. Brown is the former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Talk magazines and host of CNBC's Topic A with Tina Brown.
Elizabeth Edwards' appearance with Matt Lauer on the Today show only compounded last week's negative reception to her book.
Elizabeth Edwards the Hypocrite
Kathleen Parker is a syndicated columnist with the Washington Post Writers Group and author of Save the Males.
Whatever Elizabeth Edwards tells Oprah, she was her husband's co-conspirator in his reckless pursuit of power, and now she's cashing out on the whole sorry spectacle.
John Edwards Ducks Rielle Hunter
Matt Sledge is a writer living in Providence.
Speaking at Brown University last night, the one-time presidential candidate for the first time publicly addressed the distress of one of his former supporters. (Definitely former-she was wearing a black Obama "HOPE" T-shirt.) It was a poignant moment.
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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