'Tricky Dick' vs. the Pink Lady
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).
Nixon's victory over Helen Gahagan Douglas was one of the nastiest in history, and a prototype for today's GOP smear tactics. In an exclusive excerpt from The Pink Lady, Sally Denton revisits the infamous Senate campaign.
Behind the Democratic Wipeout
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.
The GOP built its victories in Virginia and New Jersey on financial anxieties. The Daily Beast's Peter Beinart on why the economy drove voters to the polls-and what the results say about 2010.
Obama Needs a Left
Michael Kazin’s most recent book is A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan. He teaches history at Georgetown University and is the co-editor of Dissent.
For the president to have a chance at becoming another FDR, he needs a big push from the left-or the conservative assumptions that have kept the nation in thrall for the past three decades will continue to hold sway.
FDR's Forgotten Freedoms
Harvey J. Kaye is the Ben & Joyce Rosenberg Professor of Social change and Development at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and the author of Thomas Paine and the Promise of America. He is currently writing The Four Freedoms and the Promise of America.
When they see footage in Michael Moore's new film of FDR announcing his Second Bill of Rights, many Americans will wonder whatever happened to it. Harvey J. Kaye explains why we should honor his vision.
Nothing Is Going to Change
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.
For all the hyperbole, the speech didn't matter much. The battle will resume, charges will fly-and Obama and the Democrats will ram a plan through.
The Obama Generation
Anna Greenberg is Senior Vice President of polling firm, Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research and has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago.
Young voters went nuts for Obama, but will he disappoint them? Pollster Anna Greeberg writes that his failure to fix the economy could lead to the disillusionment of a generation.
Who Made Frank Rich God?
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.
After eight years of fulminating against the religious right, now Frank Rich tells us the culture wars are over. Lee Siegel on the Times columnist's sudden conversion.
Washington's stimulus-spenders should make sure they read Amity Shlaes' The Forgotten Man as a cautionary tale. It's caused many economic policy wonks to take a new look at the complex causes of the Great Depression and the ways in which...
Margaret Hoover is an American conservative feminist, political commentator, Republican strategist, and blogger. She is the great-granddaughter of former President Herbert Hoover. Most recently, she has worked as Deputy Finance Director to Rudy Giuliani’s Presidential Exploratory Committee. She is a frequent contributor to Fox News's O'Reilly Factor.
The Heroine of the New Deal
Christine Stansell is Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor at The University of Chicago. Her book on the history of feminism will be published by Random House next year.
Frances Perkins, FDR's Labor secretary, was the first woman ever appointed to a Cabinet job and the chief architect of his New Deal. But an important new biography reveals that her remarkable accomplishments came with a high price.
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.
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.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
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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.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
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