Senate Stonewallers
Benjamin Sarlin is a reporter for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.
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.
As Joe Lieberman threatens-again-to filibuster health care, Benjamin Sarlin and Samuel P. Jacobs report on Capitol Hill's most ornery No Men. Plus, a gallery of the Senate's all-time biggest troublemakers.
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The White House war with Fox News heats up, Republicans blast the latest heath-care bill, and George Will wants to legalize marijuana. That and more in our Sunday roundup.
Iran-Contra's Scary Sequel
Art Levine, a contributing editor of The Washington Monthly, has written for Mother Jones, The American Prospect, The New Republic, The Atlantic, Slate.com, Salon.com, and numerous other publications. He also blogs regularly on labor, health, and other reform issues for In These Times and Huffington Post.
Conservatives are mounting an attack against Obama over his support for the deposed Honduran president. Leading the charge: ex-Iran-Contra operatives and Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina.
Tarnished Ensign's Next Move
Sally Denton is a writer based in Santa Fe and author of six books, including The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America and the forthcoming The Pink Lady: The Many Lives of Helen Gahagan Douglas (Bloomsbury Press).
The sex scandal-marred Nevada Republican is finished politically-his party is mobilizing against him, the governor is plotting his replacement. But the pesky senator refuses to quit. Sally Denton on the countdown to his resignation.
Team Bush Buries a Tell-All
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.
Former Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer, in his first interview since the storm over his unflattering White House memoir began, tells Lloyd Grove about his former colleagues' mission to discredit him, W.'s "depressing" speeches-and Obama's eloquence.
The Only Republican to Vote for Health Care
Benjamin Sarlin is a reporter for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.
Joseph Cao was hailed six months ago as the future of the GOP. Yesterday, he was the only Republican to vote for the Democrats' health-care plan. How the most endangered Republican in the House is making a bid to survive. By Benjamin Sarlin.
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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