Where's the Outrage?
As vice chairman of Public Strategies and president of Maverick Media, Mark McKinnon has helped meet strategic challenges for candidates, corporations and causes, including George W. Bush, John McCain, Governor Ann Richards, Charlie Wilson, Lance Armstrong, and Bono. McKinnon is co-chair of Arts & Labs, a collaboration between technology and creative communities that have embraced today's rich Internet environment to deliver innovative and creative digital products to consumers.
The hubris of public officials like John Ensign and Mark Sanford isn't even shocking anymore. Former Bush and McCain strategist Mark McKinnon proposes Ten Commandments for politicians.
Trading Morals for Dollars in a Recession
Jennifer Saranow Schultz is a freelance reporter based in San Francisco. She was previously a reporter at The Wall Street Journal in San Francisco and New York, where she covered everything from specialty retailers and social networking to consumer finance and cars.
In an economic downturn, there are deals of a lifetime everywhere. But as bargain-hunting "vulture consumers" scoop up everything from foreclosed homes to toys on eBay being sold by desperate parents, are we pawning our morals in the process?
Where's the Bailout for Publishing?
Stephen L. Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale, where he has taught since 1982. His seven non-fiction books include God’s Name in Vain: The Wrongs and Rights of Religion in Politics and Civility: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy. His first novel, The Emperor of Ocean Park (2002), spent eleven weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. His fourth novel, Jericho’s Fall, will be published in July.
Books are essential to American life, and if publishing perishes, Stephen L. Carter argues, democracy itself will soon follow.
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.
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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.
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