Half a Victory
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.
Yes, Senate Democrats won the first round on health care. But at what price? Peter Beinart on how the procedural vote could spell doom for the public option.
The Katrina Horror Story You Haven't Heard
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.
I Survived the Bush Presidency
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From "Brownie" to the beleaguered author of The Pet Goat, an oral history of the shell-shocked survivors of the Bush administration.
Those who wonder exactly why Katrina inspired so much feeling, should humble themselves by reading Tom Piazza's Why New Orleans Matters. Except for maybe the last few pages, which are overcome by the city's politics and specific recommen...
Stanley Crouch's culture pieces have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, Vogue, Downbeat, The New Yorker, and more. He has served as artistic consultant for jazz programming at Lincoln Center since 1987, and is a founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center. In June 2006 his first major collection of jazz criticism, Considering Genius: Jazz Writings, was published. He is presently completing a book about the Barack Obama presidential 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.
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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