Martin Indyk is the vice president and director of foreign policy at The Brookings Institution and author of the recently published Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East (Simon & Schuster 2009).
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Tea Party Targets Olbermann
A Dallas tea party group is hitting back at accusations from Keith Olbermann that the organization lacks diversity...with a YouTube video questioning the diversity at MSNBC. They've also issued a c...
Wingnut or Dictator?
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As Cheney, Beck & Co. invade CPAC, The Daily Beast asks: Can you tell the difference between Rush Limbaugh and Josef Stalin? Sarah Palin and Pol Pot? Take our radical quiz based on John Avlon's Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America, available now from Beast Books.
Olbermann Bows to Jon Stewart
The pundits are right: Jon Stewart IS the most important figure in broadcast news. Or at least he's the one able to knock some sense into the shrill, laughable figure Keith Olbermann has become. He...
January 23: The Week in Viral Videos
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From a tiny reggaeton singer to Brett Favre's "Pants on the Ground," Anderson Cooper's heroics to a bobsledder's wardrobe malfunction, watch the buzziest viral videos of the week.
The Left's Tea Party
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Dana Goldstein is an associate editor and writer at The Daily Beast. Her work on politics, women’s issues, and education has appeared in The American Prospect, Slate, BusinessWeek, The New Republic, and The Nation.
As the Senate vote on health care looms, some liberals are frantically mounting an eleventh-hour effort to kill the bill. Dana Goldstein on the opposition's last-ditch tactics.
Olbermann Tells Beck: 'Go to Hell'
After awarding Glenn Beck the title of "Worst Person in the World" Tuesday night, Keith Olbermann said the host-and others who he believes exploit 9/11 to advance their politics-can "go to hell."
Running Away From Rush
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Matt Latimer is the author of the New York Times bestseller, SPEECH-LESS: Tales of a White House Survivor. He was deputy director of speechwriting for George W. Bush and chief speechwriter for Donald Rumsfeld.
Lately, GOP leaders are anxiously distancing themselves from Limbaugh and Beck. Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer reports his boss ignored the talk radio titans-and why that was a mistake.
Outfoxing Obama
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Nicolle Wallace served as a senior adviser to the McCain-Palin campaign from May to November 2008. She served President George W. Bush as an assistant to the president and director of communications for the White House, as well as communications director for President Bush's 2004 campaign.
So much for post-partisan politics. Team Obama's attacks on Fox News are petty and childish. Top Bush strategist Nicolle Wallace on why the White House war on cable is backfiring badly.
Why Bibi Humiliated Biden
America's Craziest Cities
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Women in the World: Day One
Olivia Cole writes for the Spectator and the London Evening Standard. An award-winning poet, her first collection, Restricted View, was published this fall.
Women in the World Video Highlights
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