Divya Gugnani is the CEO and founder of BehindtheBurner.com, an emerging culinary media brand that creates expert-based content about food, wine, mixology, and nutrition.
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Rights Amid the Rubble
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Elizabeth Ferris is a senior fellow in Foreign Policy at Brookings and the co-director of the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement. As co-director of the Project, Ferris focuses on the international community’s response to humanitarian crises, with a particular emphasis on the human rights of internally displaced persons.
The flow of aid is heartening. But with Haiti's government in shambles, the global community has to step up to guard human rights and stave off "the disaster after the disaster."
Half a Victory
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, will be published by HarperCollins in June. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
Democrats won the first round on health care last night, but centrist Senators Ben Nelson and Joe Lieberman took to the talk shows today to say the current bill won't pass. Peter Beinart on why the public option might be doomed.
The Katrina Horror Story You Haven't Heard
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Phyllis Montana-Leblanc is a Hurricane Katrina survivor. She was featured in Spike Lee's documentary When The Levees Broke and is author of Not Just The Levees Broke: My Story During and After Hurricane Katrina. She is at work on her next memoir, No More Wire Hangers about domestic abuse in teenage relationships.
As a shocking New Orleans documentary airs on HBO tonight, Phyllis Montana-LeBlanc-bestselling author and gutsy survivor-explains why the city is still drowning.
Great Botched Moments in Catastrophe Response
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As his countrymen sorted through the rubble after Monday's earthquake, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi declared that they should treat their newfound homelessness like "a weekend of camping." The Daily Beast remembers some of the great insensitive moments of crisis response through the years.
10 Power Food Combos
How Barack Beat Bibi
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, will be published by HarperCollins in June. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
Gal With a Suitcase
Jolie Hunt travels on her own dime for more than 50% of the year. Her recommendations are aimed at business travelers who are short on time but not on taste. She is the global head of public relations for Thomson Reuters, appointed April 2008. She lives between New York and London.
Are Hospitals the New Killing Fields?
Kent Sepkowitz is an infectious disease specialist in New York City. He has contributed to The New York Times, Slate, and, oh-so-briefly, O Magazine. He also writes academic medical articles that are at times pretty tough sledding.
March 20: The Week in Viral Videos
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