Europe Lurches Right
Barbie Latza Nadeau has reported from Italy for Newsweek Magazine since 1997. She also writes for CNN Traveller, Budget Travel Magazine and Frommer's.
With the economy struggling across Europe, immigrant-bashing and law-and-order proved winning platforms. That spelled good news for one scandal-plagued politician (Silvio Berlusconi) and bad news for another (Gordon Brown), as EU parliament elections gave big gains to conservative parties.
Baryshnikov Unbound
Ross Kenneth Urken has written for The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, and The Moscow Times, among other publications. He lives in New York City.
Now on a two-month world tour, dance icon Mikhail Baryshnikov talks to The Daily Beast about his art, Putin's Russia-and why he still hasn't seen the Sex and the City finale.
The Female 'Schindler'
Kati Marton is an author and journalist who has reported for ABC News, National Public Radio as well as a number of print outlets. She received several honors for her reporting, including the George Foster Peabody Award. Her latest book is The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World.
In CBS' The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler, Anna Paquin brilliantly portrays an unsung Catholic Pole who saved Jews during World War II. Kati Marton on why the movie is a must-see.
The Two Best Newscasts You Aren't Watching
Peter Osnos is a senior fellow for media at The Century Foundation. Osnos is the founder and editor at large of PublicAffairs Books. He is vice chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review, a former publisher at Random House, and was a correspondent and editor at the Washington Post.
When traditional media outlets downsize, foreign correspondents are among the first casualties. But two new programs give hope that world news won't die out altogether.
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.
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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.
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