What Reagan Could Tell the Right
Matthew Dallek, a Shapiro Fellow at George Washington University ’s School of Media and Public Affairs, is the author of The Right Moment: Ronald Reagan’s First Victory and the Decisive Turning Point in American Politics.
In slamming health-care reform, GOP leaders proudly claim the mantle of Ronald Reagan. Yet they're ignoring how Reagan deftly distanced himself from the far right.
The GOP’s Next Obamacare Attack
Matt Miller is a management consultant, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and the host of public radio’s popular political week-in-review, Left, Right & Center. His new book is The Tyranny of Dead Ideas.
It's the latest GOP attack: Obama's plan will force the young and healthy to subsidize the old and sick. But, Matt Miller writes, big corporations are already doing just that.
The Man Who Robbed Medicare of Millions
Meet the new face of Medicare fraud: as 60 Minutes reported Sunday night, literally billions of dollars are being stolen from the government from unsophisticated criminals like the gentleman in thi...
What Does the GOP Do Now?
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.
As the Senate Finance Committee pushes health care reform closer to the finish line, Rep. Paul Ryan, one of the House's smartest Republicans, tells Lloyd Grove about the GOP's last-ditch options to stop it-and what the party will do to Olympia Snowe.
Be More Like Teddy
Reihan Salam is a fellow at the New America Foundation and the co-author of Grand New Party.
How can the president lift his sagging poll numbers? By embracing his fallen mentor's mantle: bash Wall Street and re-connect with the middle class.
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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