Vidal Kicks Up Dust Again
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.
Trouble was on the agenda when the aging provocateur, infamous for his tough remarks on Israel, visited a Jewish cultural hub last night. But as Lloyd Grove reports, Vidal charmed the critics.
Can This Woman Fill Teddy's Shoes?
Samuel P. Jacobs is a staff reporter at The Daily Beast. He has also written for The Boston Globe, The New York Observer, and The New Republic Online.
Massachusetts has its first open Senate seat in more than 20 years. So why are the biggest names in state politics steering clear? Maybe AG Martha Coakley has scared them all away.
My Martha's Vineyard Close Encounter
Patricia J. Williams is the author of The Alchemy of Race and Rights; The Rooster's Egg; and Seeing a ColorBlind Future: The Paradox of Race. She is a also a columnist for The Nation.
As Obama's holiday ends, longtime summer resident Patricia Williams reflects on vacationing within arm's length of the first family-and Sen. Kennedy's profound effect on this tiny island.
Crowley: Cordial, Productive Summit
It's not over yet. Sgt. Crowley spoke to press after the Beer Summit, saying that he and Prof. Gates will meet again, but more beer might send the wrong message. Fox News
Finally... The Beer Summit!
Here's the moment everyone's been waiting for. Obama sat down for a cool one at the White House with Sgt. Crowley, Professor Gates and surprise guest Joe Biden.
Obama: Beer Summit Not a Summit
Obama says he is "fascinated" with the media's fascination about Thursday's White House happy hour with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley. Fox News
July 26: 7 Best Moments From Sunday Talk
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Hillary Clinton dismisses Iran's nuclear ambitions, Paul Krugman and Nancy Pelosi share (guardedly) optimistic outlooks for the economy, and Bill Kristol fires back at Obama's "stupidly" comment. All this and more in this week's Sunday talk roundup.
Harvard's Race Wars
Samuel P. Jacobs is a staff reporter at The Daily Beast. He has also written for The Boston Globe, The New York Observer, and The New Republic Online.
With his phone call yesterday to the police officer who arrested Henry Louis Gates, Jr, Obama showed how much he has forgotten since his law school days about racial politics there.
My Man Crush on JFK, Jr.
A former political operative, recovering copywriter, and failed sitcom writer, Mark Katz is now the founder and principal of the Soundbite Institute, a creative think tank that specializes in on-message humor. His essays have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Time magazine, and he is the author of CLINTON & ME: A Real Life Political Comedy, an account of eight years as the in-house humor speechwriter of the Clinton White House.
On the tenth anniversary of John F. Kennedy Jr.'s death, Mark Katz finally admits he was his mother's living John-John doll and recalls the day the two finally met.
Born on the Fourth of July
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From Hawthorne to Geraldo, VIEW OUR GALLERY of famous Americans who share a patriotic birthday with the United States.
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.
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
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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