The Health-Care Gender Gap
Dana Goldstein is an associate editor and writer at The Daily Beast. Her work on politics, women’s issues, and education has appeared in The American Prospect, Slate, BusinessWeek, The New Republic, and The Nation.
New research reveals many fast-growing professions for women lack health insurance. Dana Goldstein on why reform proposals stiff "pink-collar" workers.
August 30: Top 8 Moments From Sunday Talk
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Two Cheneys blast the Obama administration on two networks, Maria Shriver and others remember Ted Kennedy, and John McCain talks tough on torture. That and more in our Sunday roundup.
Mourning the Kennedys
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As America's royal family says farewell to its patriarch, a look back at the iconic photos of the Kennedys' strength and unity in their darkest hours.
Eunice Kennedy championed the cause of others in the shadow of her famous brothers. The Shriver kids are continuing her legacy.
Arnold's Debt to Eunice
Joe Mathews is a journalist, an Irvine senior fellow at the New America Foundation, and a contributing writer at the Los Angeles Times. He previously served as Justice Department reporter for the Wall Street Journal and as a city desk reporter at the Baltimore Sun. He is the author of The People's Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Rise of Blockbuster Democracy.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver might be known for her famous relatives-and founding the Special Olympics-but it was her political savvy that got Arnold Schwarzenegger into the California governor's office.
The Kennedy clan in 1931 in Hyannisport, MA.
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.
Lee Siegel has written about 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: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
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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