Divya Gugnani is the CEO and founder of BehindtheBurner.com, an emerging culinary media brand that creates expert-based content about food, wine, mixology, and nutrition.
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Wingnut or Dictator?
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The Daily Beast is dedicated to news and commentary, culture, and entertainment. We carefully curate the web’s most essential stories and bring you original must-reads from our talented contributors.
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.
Monsters vs. Weenies
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Lee Siegel is The Daily Beast's senior columnist. He publishes widely on culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: How the Web Is Reshaping Culture And Commerce—And Why It Matters. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
Where are the real statesmen when you need them? Somehow the 2009 stage got hijacked by grandstanding brutes like Glenn Beck and simpering compromisers like Harry Reid. Lee Siegel reviews the year in political theater.
The Year in Talk: 2009's 19 Most Pivotal Moments
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From Carrie Prejean to Balloon Boy, Glenn Beck to Miss O., a Letterman confession to Cramer's dressing-down courtesy of Jon Stewart, we bring you the best moments from talk television in 2009.
Obama's Next Battle
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Bryan Curtis is a senior editor at The Daily Beast. His story about his grandfather’s softball career is in The Best American Sports Writing of 2009.
If you thought health care was a brawl, wait until Obama tackles immigration next year. Bryan Curtis talks to the opposition forces about what they have in store.
Is Lou Dobbs Too Mean to Be President?
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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.
Former colleagues at CNN tell Lloyd Grove that Lou Dobbs managed through intimidation, picked on subordinates' weaknesses, and flew into rages. Given what Dobbs calls his "nature," could he survive a race?
A Populist Frankenstein
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Lee Siegel is The Daily Beast's senior columnist. He publishes widely on culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: How the Web Is Reshaping Culture And Commerce—And Why It Matters. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
Mix Lou Dobbs' brain, Sarah Palin's sensual warmth, and Glenn Beck's acting skills, and you've got one scary political monster.
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How Barack Beat Bibi
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, will be published by HarperCollins in June. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
Are Hospitals the New Killing Fields?
Kent Sepkowitz is an infectious disease specialist in New York City. He has contributed to The New York Times, Slate, and, oh-so-briefly, O Magazine. He also writes academic medical articles that are at times pretty tough sledding.
March 20: The Week in Viral Videos
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What If Dad Had Lived?
Adam Clymer is a former Chief Washington Correspondent of the New York Times and author of Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography.
