Moore: Are We An Insane Country?
Forget George Bush, Afghanistan could become Barack Obama's war. So says Michael Moore, who on Larry King Live begged Obama to bring the troops home.
He Won What?!
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A Prize With a Price
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.
President Obama has done much to deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, writes Michael Moore. But now that he's accepted it, his decisions on Afghanistan had better live up to it.
Dodd Takes on Michael Moore
Ari Melber is a correspondent for The Nation.
He was already one of the Senate's most endangered incumbents. Now the Connecticut Democrat has Michael Moore in his face. Ari Melber reports on how Dodd is campaigning against a movie.
Moore to Hannity: You Lie?
As a guest on Sean Hannity's show last night, Michael Moore presses the conservative host about his (so-called) church-going, challenging him to remember this past Sunday's sermon-with no luck.
Michael Moore's Muse
Liz Goodwin is an assistant editor at The Daily Beast. She has written for the New York Sun, GothamSchools, the Tico Times, and Fodor's Travel Guides.
She's a plain-spoken pol from Toledo who wants to put Wall Street bankers behind bars. Meet Marcy Kaptur, in theaters now as the scourge of greed in Capitalism: A Love Story.
Cloudy With a Chance of Mortgages
Jonathan Wald is former Senior Vice President at CNBC as well as former Executive Producer of Today and NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in New York.
Want a movie that tells the true story of the financial crisis? Forget that documentary by Michael Moore. Try Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.
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.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
Jolie hunt is the global head of public relations for Thomson Reuters, appointed April 2008. Prior to that she served as global director of corporate and business affairs for IBM Corporation She was the director of PR for the Financial Times. She lives between New York and London.
John Barrasso is the junior senator from Wyoming.
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.
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