Going Postal
Mark Ames is the author of Going Postal: Rage, Murder and Rebellion From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond and The eXile: Sex, Drugs and Libel in the New Russia. He is a regular contributor to eXiled Online.
The office shooting in Orlando-on the same day unemployment crested 10 percent-is a deadly omen. Mark Ames on why spikes in joblessness always breed more workplace violence.
One Company, 23 Suicides
Eric Pape has reported on Europe and the Mediterranean region for Newsweek Magazine since 2003. He is co-author of the graphic novel Shake Girl, which was inspired by one of his articles. He has written for the Los Angeles Times magazine, Spin, Vibe, Le Courrier International, Salon, Los Angeles and others. He is based in Paris.
Since early 2008, nearly two-dozen employees at France Telecom have taken their own lives. Is the communications giant's corporate culture to blame? Eric Pape investigates.
Can Obama Win Back Israel?
Benjamin Sarlin is a reporter for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.
After years of Bush love, Israelis are offended by Obama's cool approach-and he is losing the support of an important ally, critics warn. Former ambassador Martin Indyk tells The Daily Beast's Benjamin Sarlin how Obama can get back on track.
Interview With Claudia Goldin
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.
To get a handle on what's going on in the economy today, The Daily Beast spoke with Harvard economist Claudia Goldin, an expert on economic history, and author of The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century, among other works. Goldin says that our focus on the economic downturn may distract us from more pressing concerns and recommends increasing our attention on providing training for those communities hit the worst by the recession-young men, particularly African Americans, who live in cities.
Elections on Tuesday were supposed to end a political deadlock in Israel, but now the country's politics are more complicated than ever. Centrist party Kadima won the most seats of any party, but the conservative Likud Party and an assortment of right-wing parties captured the majority of seats in the Knesset, leading to a frantic race on both sides to engineer a working coalition to govern the country. Who will be Israel's next prime minister when the dust settles?
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.
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.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
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