Can Goldman Find God?
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.
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
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
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
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 Right-Wing Op-Ed Insurgency
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.
Liberal bias? A Daily Beast investigation crunches the numbers and shows how conservative think tanks have quietly achieved domination over the opinion pages of America's biggest papers.
11 Outrageous News Videos
The Daily Beast Video curates the most essential and entertaining video, and brings you original and exclusive productions from our talented contributors.
From Karl Rove bemoaning his failed attempt at wooing Maureen Dowd, to a new Miss California, to a Palin-Letterman smackdown, this week saw plenty of crazy news clips. The Daily Beast presents the 11 most outrageous.
Bush Is Fun Again!
Michael Schaffer is a writer in Philadelphia. One Nation Under Dog, his book about petmania, the pet industry, and what modern petkeeping says about modern America, is available from Henry Holt. For more visit www.michaelschaffer.net.
When he left office in January, George W. Bush's popularity plunged. But with Cheney and Rummy back in the headlines, Michael Schaffer says that opinion is shifting once again: the loveable, bumbling Bush of old is back.
In the early '70ss, Michael Douglas dated actress Brenda Vaccaro-who appeared in one of his father's movies, Once Is Not Enough. When Vaccaro was n...
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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