My Favorite Pins
Madeleine K. Albright is a principal of The Albright Group LLC, a global strategy firm, and chairwoman and principal of Albright Capital Management LLC, an investment advisory firm focused on emerging markets. In 1997, she was named the first woman secretary of State. From 1993 to 1997, Dr. Albright served as the US permanent representative to the UN. Her latest book is Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership.
In an exclusive look at her new book, Read My Pins, Madeleine Albright shares with The Daily Beast her favorite pins and the remarkable stories they bring to mind.
Albright's Pin Diplomacy
Rebecca Dana is a culture correspondent for The Daily Beast. A former editor and reporter for the Wall Street Journal, she has also written for the New York Times, the New York Observer, Rolling Stone and Slate, among other publications.
The former secretary of State, who once telegraphed diplomatic messages by wearing carefully selected pins, talks to Rebecca Dana about her new book on her extraordinary pin collection, Sarah Palin's pins, and more.
"Naturally, not every diplomatic encounter demands a sunny attitude. If I wanted to deliver a sharp message, I often wore a bee. Muhammad Ali used ...
Obama's Nuclear Victory
Joseph Cirincione is president of Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation, and author of Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons.
Our most popular president in decades is using his rock-star status to push his anti-nuclear weapons agenda-and got the unanimous backing of the Security Council on Thursday. Joseph Cirincione on Obama's popularity with purpose.
Celebrity Professors
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This fall, Spike Lee, Bobby Flay, Zadie Smith, and Eliot Spitzer go back to school. VIEW OUR GALLERY of big names on campus.
Hillary's Secret Weapon
Sandra McElwaine is a Washington-based journalist. She has been a reporter for The Washington Star, The Baltimore Sun, a correspondent for CNN and People and Washington editor of Vogue and Cosmopolitan. Currently she writes for The Washington Post, Time and Forbes.
On Friday, Hillary Clinton swore in Melanne Verveer as the first ambassador for global women's issues. Sandra McElwaine on the next chapter in their long friendship.
How to End the Nuclear Threat
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Amid escalating violence in Pakistan and renewed threats from North Korea, Madeleine Albright and 13 other former foreign ministers provide an exclusive step-by-step proposal for keeping nuclear risks at bay.
India's Anxiety About Obama
John Elliott is a former Financial Times journalist now based in New Delhi. He has written for Fortune magazine, The Economist and the New Statesman, and also has a blog on South Asia events.
Dubya-loving India wasn't exactly giddy about the prospect of an Obama administration, but they've already notched a diplomatic coup after some blunt lobbying about Richard Holbrooke.
Brunch With the Beast
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On Sunday, January 18, The Daily Beast and Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mica Brzezinski of MSNBC hosted a crowded brunch sponsored by MDC Partners to celebrate the inauguration.
Audio Book-Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama. Though my usual practice is to read books, I highly recommend listening to our president-elect read his autobiography on CD because it is a very compelling and beautifully written story t...
Madeleine K. Albright is a principal of The Albright Group LLC, a global strategy firm, and chairwoman and principal of Albright Capital Management LLC, an investment advisory firm focused on emerging markets. In 1997, she was named the first woman secretary of State. From 1993 to 1997, Dr. Albright served as the US permanent representative to the UN. Her latest book is Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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