The Yes List – Tim Burton's Macabre Art at MoMA
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Each week, The Daily Beast scours the cultural landscape to choose three top picks. This week, the dark art of Tim Burton at MoMA, Penelope Cruz dazzles in the new Almodóvar movie, and Will Smith and Jay-Z come to Broadway.
On the secretary's 11-day tour of Africa, did awkward dancing, political roasting, and a snippy rejoinder overshadow Hillary Clinton's mission? The Daily Beast judges six key diplomatic moments from her trip.
Hillary Bashes Bush in Nigeria
Let's just say "diplomatic" won't be the first word that comes to mind as you watch this clip. Here's Hillary Clinton in Nigeria, bashing the Bush family and a certain recent presidential election.
African Taliban Terrorizes Nigeria
Eliza Griswold is a New America fellow and a recipient of the 2010 Rome Prize. Her book, The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line between Islam and Christianity, will by published by FSG this spring.
As Hillary Clinton visits Nigeria, the oil-rich country central to Africa's success, she should be wary of a deadly new threat: the African Taliban.
The Hypocrite Killer
Jane Ciabattari’s work has appeared in Bookforum,The Guardian online, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, among others. She is president of the National Book Critics Circle and author of the short-story collection Stealing the Fire. Recent short stories are online at KGB Bar Lit, Verbsap, Literary Mama and Lost Magazine.
Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie created a sensation with 2006's Half of a Yellow Sun. Her new story collection, The Thing Around Your Neck, is potent mix of compassion and zingers.
Shell Oil's Settlement Is Only the Beginning
Steve Kretzmann is Executive Director of Oil Change International. He has worked on policy and movement building surrounding energy issues and the global oil industry for the last nineteen years. He served as the environmental advisor to Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People in Nigeria. In April 2009, he testified in the US Congress on the impacts of the oil industry in Nigeria.
Now that Shell Oil has settled a lawsuit over the death of a Nigerian activist, Steve Kretzman-a fellow activist and expert in the field-says the Ogoni peoples' struggle for justice has only begun. Shell settled because they were scared.
How Much Is a Dead Nigerian Worth to Shell?
Joe McGinniss is the bestselling author of The Selling of the President, Fatal Vision and Never Enough, among others. His next book will be about how the little-known Alien Tort Claims Act of 1789 has enabled a new wave of 21st- century human-rights litigation.
The Dutch oil giant will pay out a paltry $15 million to the families of 10 murdered Nigerians, including activist Ken Saro-Wiwa-and it will admit no wrongdoing in their deaths. True-crime author Joe McGinniss smells a rat.
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.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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.
The Daily Beast is dedicated to news and commentary, culture, and entertainment. We carefully curate the web’s most essential stories and bring you original must-reads from our talented contributors.
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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