"A" Is for Anniversary
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Mrs. Obama visits Sesame Street for its 40th birthday today. Watch 25 classic moments, including Michael Jackson, Beyoncé, Johnny Cash, and Jack Black. Plus, an ode to a rubber duck.
While "Mahna Mahna" is best known as the opening sketch for the first-ever episode of The Muppet Show, it first charmed young viewers when it aired...
Pageant parents will do anything to wow the judges, but sometimes the line between "impressing" and "making everyone uncomfortable" blurs. Like whe...
Baby Beauty Pageant Dos and Dont's
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Second-graders in S&M costumes? Little girls with stripper names? Boys in satin dresses? Watch the most cringe-worthy moments from TLC's weekly series Toddlers & Tiaras.
Why Dumb Toys Make Kids Smarter
We didn't want our son to have Pokémon cards-until they began turning him into a human computer. NurtureShock author Po Bronson on games that increase children's brain power 100-fold.
Parenting for Smarties
John Douglas Marshall is a critic for The Daily Beast. He was the longtime book critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer until it ceased publication in March.
A parenting book that contains no advice? That's the conceit behind NurtureShock, a new non-instructional tome that will make you a better mom or dad without you even knowing it.
Obama "Anthem" Controversy
This video of N.J. school kids singing a flowery anthem to "Barack Hussein Obama" may have been posted on YouTube on Sept. 6, but it just recently surfaced-and it's lighting up conservative media o...
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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