First Food Critics
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.
Move over, Zagat. The new force on the dining scene is Michelle and Barack, whose date night took them to a low-key West Village restaurant yesterday. Sandra McElwaine on what the First Foodies like to eat.
Hail to the First Granny
Mo Rocca is a writer, comedian, and political satirist. Rocca is a regular panelist on NPR's Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! and a regular contributor to CBS' Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood. He is a regular correspondent for NBC's Tonight Show, most recently providing 2008 election coverage, as well as for MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann. He was a regular contributor to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart from 1998 to 2003.
My love affair with the divine, demure, and undeniably sexy Marian Robinson. By Mo Rocca
Cool it, Barack. Slow down, Michelle. And move over, Oprah. The real power in the Obama White House is First Granny-elect Marian Robinson: South Side-reared, tireless mom to two Ivy-Leaguers and protector-in-chief of grandkids Malia and ...
Mo Rocca is a writer, comedian, and political satirist. Rocca is a regular panelist on NPR's Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! and a regular contributor to CBS' Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood. He is a regular correspondent for NBC's Tonight Show, most recently providing 2008 election coverage, as well as for MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann. He was a regular contributor to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart from 1998 to 2003.
Grandma-in-Chief
Patricia J. Williams is the author of The Alchemy of Race and Rights; The Rooster's Egg; and Seeing a ColorBlind Future: The Paradox of Race. She is a also a columnist for The Nation.
When Michelle Obama's mother, Marian Robinson, moves to Washington, she'll help redefine the notion of the 'all-American' family.
Will the Obama Kids Stay in Chicago with Grandma?
Scott Horton is a law professor and writer on legal and national security affairs for Harper's Magazine and The American Lawyer, among other publications.
As the Obamas struggle to shield their daughters from the national spotlight, they've considered leaving their daughters in Chicago with their grandmother to finish out the school year.
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.
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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