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by Lloyd Grove

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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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Under attack from Tennessee transplant Harold Ford, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand returns fire-explaining her own position changes, tiptoeing around bank bonuses, and taking a swat at Lloyd Grove.

by Max Blumenthal

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Max Blumenthal is a former writer for The Daily Beast, writing fellow at The Nation Institute and author of Republican Gomorrah (Basic/Nation Books). Contact him at maxblumenthal3000@yahoo.com.

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Limbaugh and the Tea Party crowd drove out the moderate woman, but Conservative Doug Hoffman still lost his race. Max Blumenthal says far right's virulent attacks are what really did him in.

by Meghan McCain

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Meghan McCain is a columnist for The Daily Beast. Originally from Phoenix, she graduated from Columbia University in 2007. She is a New York Times bestselling children's author, previously wrote for Newsweek magazine, and created the Web site mccainblogette.com.

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As an NRA member-their annual convention kicks off today in my hometown-the shooting range is one place I'm Republican through-and-through. I find it empowering, especially as a woman, to fire off a few rounds.

The National Rifle Association's annual gathering next week is encountering bad timing as the nation grapples with one of the most gruesome springs in memory. In a one-month span, 57 people died in eight mass shootings whose locations varied from an immigration center to a nursing home. With so much on the agenda in Washington, Democrats seem unlikely to push gun control. But if the NRA wanted to discuss gun violence, it would find time between Mitt Romney's speech and a Ted Nugent concert to discuss these six issues.

by Harold Evans

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Harold Evans, author of two histories of America, just published his memoir, My Paper Chase. Editor at large of The Week, he was editor of The Sunday Times from 1967-81 and The Times from 1981-82, founding editor of Condé Nast Traveler, and president of Random House Trade Group from 1990-97.

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Can public shock over the latest round of mass killings overcome the hypocrisy and cowardice of our lawmakers-the ones who let the killers get their guns?