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Mitt Romney Bowls for Dollars
On Wednesday, Mitt Romney hits the lanes for a 2012 fundraiser-and challenges Sarah Palin's hold on the coveted bowling-alley base. Samuel P. Jacobs on the politics of tenpins.
Tallying the NBC Damage
With a deal nearly done for Conan O'Brien to leave NBC, Kim Masters assesses the cost to the network-both in dollars and in the reputations of those who remain.
In Defense of Tea Parties
Popular though it may be for "educated" people to sneer at the Tea Party crowd, professional politicians dismiss the movement at their peril. Tunku Varadarajan on the power of political amateurs.
The Year in Fashion 2009
From Lady Gaga's craziest costumes to Michelle Obama's most glamorous gowns to the plus-size models who made big beautiful, VIEW OUR GALLERY of 2009's fashion highs and lows.
Can Goldman Find God?
Lloyd Blankfein says Goldman Sachs is "doing God's work." Is it? A former Goldman partner, a minister, and seminary president have an biblically ambitious plan to help the company do just that.
Oval Office Confidential
Award-winning Daily Beast columnist Christopher Buckley on the surprising revelations in the latest guilty pleasure kiss-and-tell.
America's New Racial Reality
The post-racial era that Barack Obama was supposed to initiate seems never to have arrived. But blacks' old contract with America is over, and everyone-Skip Gates, Maureen Dowd, Jimmy Carter-is weighing in.
Race and the Right
Charges fly that conservative critics of Obama are fueled by racism. African-Americans have been to this movie before.























