The New, Improved John Kerry
Sandra McElwaine is a Washington-based journalist. She has been a reporter for The Washington Star, The Baltimore Sun, a correspondent for CNN and People and Washington editor of Vogue and Cosmopolitan. Currently she writes for The Washington Post, Time and Forbes.
Back from Afghanistan and Pakistan, the senator is relaxed, confident-and blunt. In an interview with The Daily Beast's Sandra McElwaine, Kerry dishes about everything from Gen. McChrystal's troop request to the latest gossip about Richard Holbrooke.
Kerry: Cheney Wrong on Afghanistan
Strong words from John Kerry. He says politics has reduced an "extraordinary complex country" into a simple, "headline ready" yes or no on troop numbers, and that Dick Cheney was wrong before, and ...
Terrified Whispers in Pakistan
Fatima Bhutto is a graduate of Columbia University and the School of Oriental and African Studies. She is working on a book to be published by Jonathan Cape in 2010. Fatima lives and works in Karachi, Pakistan.
As reliable information in Pakistan dries up, ours has become a fearful populace addicted to rumors and whispers about who is targeted next.
Kidman's New Cause
Tim Fernholz is a writing fellow at The American Prospect. He has also written for The New Republic, The Nation, The Guardian, American Lawyer, and the Washington City Paper. He has been a commenter on MSNBC and C-SPAN.
Nicole Kidman comes to D.C. to lift the veil on international violence against women. But during an economic crisis, will foreign aid for women be cut?
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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