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The week in Palin from two sides: Michelle Goldberg argues she may suffer from narcissistic personality disorder while Lee Siegel says it's a liberal pile-on and she embodies our democracy.
The Great Mammogram Debate
Liesl Schillinger is a New York-based writer and literary critic whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, New York magazine, The Washington Post, the New Republic, The London Independent on Sunday, and other publications here and abroad.
This week's stunning reversal on when women should get mammograms lays bare our disturbing ignorance about women's bodies. Liesl Schillinger on why a fundamental female health issue is so difficult to resolve.
Leave Palin Alone
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.
Has the assault on Sarah Palin from the left jumped the shark this week? Lee Siegel on why she is the very embodiment of American democracy.
Are Pakistani Pop Stars Spreading Hate?
Pakistani pop musicians aren't above catering to the masses, if it means selling more albums-but when the masses hate America, and don't think the Taliban's such a big deal, they sometimes end up s...
The president departs for the Far East today. From China's economic might to Japan's atomic legacy to Myanmar's human rights record, the toughest issues he will confront along the way. Plus, Alex Massie on why Obama skipped the Berlin Wall anniversary.
The Journey of the American Woman
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.
Gail Collins' new book tells the story of American women since the 1950s, writes Christine Stansell-and shows us that the depressing mess left when an old order crumbles is still preferable to the tidiness of a once-immovable status quo.
Defending a Bomb-Thrower
Matthew Yglesias is a Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. He is the author of Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats.
Republicans whine about partisanship-while stiff-arming Obama and sitting on their hands. Thank heavens for Alan Grayson, who's bringing moral backbone to the health-care debate.
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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