How quickly things change: After years of deriding anti-Bush protesters as kooks, enthusiastic conservatives are organizing to block health-care reform. Can they scuttle the White House agenda-or are their raucous gatherings sabotaging their own cause?
Everyone should watch what Rep. John Lewis said on MSNBC last night to realize what this country just did. He managed to put into perspective how historic election night is.
Joe Lockhart is a founding partner with The Glover Park Group who specializes in media relations and political strategy. He has served as spokesman for President Clinton from 1998-2000. An award-winning journalist, Lockhart has held key positions at SKY Television News of London, CNN, and ABC Network News.
The Last Lap
Sean Wilentz is a history professor at Princeton University whose books include The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln and The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008. He is a contributing editor at The New Republic, and historian-in residence at Bob Dylan's official website.
Historian Sean Wilentz talks to Jesse Jackson and civil-rights veterans about their awe of-and tensions with-the Obama campaign.
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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