Michael Moore is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker and author. He directed and produced Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, and Sicko. He has also written seven books, most recently, Mike’s Election Guide 2008.
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Mitt Romney Bowls for Dollars
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Samuel P. Jacobs is a staff reporter at The Daily Beast. He has also written for The Boston Globe, The New York Observer, and The New Republic Online.
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.
I am a huge fan of Maureen Dowd, I read her New York Times columns religiously. Last week's op-ed on President Obama's GOP address was just excellent, she's always so astute with her observations.
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is a literary critic, educator, scholar, writer, editor and public intellectual. He was the first African American to receive the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship. In 2002, Gates was selected to give the Jefferson Lecture, in recognition of his "distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities." The lecture resulted in his 2003 book, The Trials of Phillis Wheatley.
Tallying the NBC Damage
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Kim Masters covers the entertainment business for The Daily Beast. She is also the host of The Business, public radio's weekly program about the business of show business. She is also the author of The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everybody Else.
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
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Tunku Varadarajan is a national affairs correspondent and writer at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and a professor at NYU’s Stern Business School. He is a former assistant managing editor at The Wall Street Journal. (Follow him on Twitter here.)
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
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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.
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?
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Jacki Zehner is the President of the Jacquelyn and Gregory Zehner Family Foundation and a Founding Partner of Circle Financial Group. She blogs at www.pursepundit.blogspot.com.
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The Rev. Dr. Katharine Rhodes Henderson is the President of Auburn Theological Seminary in New York City, an institute for religious leadership, founded in 1818 with a history of commitment to progressive social causes from abolition of slavery to women's rights. She blogs at newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith.
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
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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.
Award-winning Daily Beast columnist Christopher Buckley on the surprising revelations in the latest guilty pleasure kiss-and-tell.
America's New Racial Reality
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James Carroll's recent book is Practicing Catholic, a story of American belief. He is a columnist for the Boston Globe and Distinguished-Scholar-in-Residence at Suffolk University. His other books include An American Requiem, which won the National Book Award, House of War, winner of the PEN-Galbraith Award, and Constantine's Sword, now an acclaimed documentary.
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
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Eddie Reeves is a strategic communications consultant based in Dallas. His previous work experience includes stints on the senior management team at Public Strategies, as a Vice President, Media Relations at Merrill Lynch, as Press Secretary and Senior Legislative Assistant for the late Congressman J.J. “Jake” Pickle and as a political columnist for the Austin American-Statesman. He can be reached at reevesreport@gmail.com.
Charges fly that conservative critics of Obama are fueled by racism. African-Americans have been to this movie before.
The Pure Greed of Obama's Phony Health-Care Reform
How Oscars Ruin a Marriage
Nicole LaPorte is a West Coast reporter for The Daily Beast. A former film reporter for Variety, she has also written for The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Observer, and W.
The Courting of Christiane
Rebecca Dana is a senior 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.
15 Reasons to Watch TV This Spring
Jace Lacob is the writer/editor of Televisionary, a website devoted to television news, criticism, and interviews. Jace resides in Los Angeles. He is a contributor to several entertainment Web sites and can be found on Twitter and Facebook.
The '80s, Part II
Gina Piccalo spent a decade at the Los Angeles Times covering Hollywood. She's now a contributing writer for Los Angeles Magazine and her work has appeared in Elle, More and Emmy. She can be found at ginapiccalo.com.
