The Next Global Panic
Joshua Cooper Ramo is Managing Director and a partner at Kissinger Associates, one of the world's leading strategic advisory firms. Prior to joining Kissinger Associates, he was Assistant Managing Editor of Time and worked in the advisory and banking business in China.
The arrival of swine flu at Obama's 100-day mark signals the challenges that will define his presidency. From financial panic to Islamic fundamentalism, a new wave of dangers is sweeping the planet. Joshua Cooper Ramo, author of The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us and What We Can Do About It, reports.
Cheney on Obama's 'Remarkable' Win
How does Dick Cheney feel about Obama's win? Apparently, not too bad; he tells Wolf Blitzer Obama represents 'tremendous success and progress for the United States.'
Lieberman's Empty Promises
Jane Hamsher is the founder of firedoglake.com. She is the author of the bestselling book Killer Instinct and has produced such films Natural Born Killers and Permanent Midnight. She lives in Washington, D.C.
Why President-elect Obama and Harry Reid should be weary of the senator from Connecticut.
How Obama Can Restore American Idealism
Ted Widmer directs the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. He was a speechwriter and senior adviser to President Clinton.
We have all heard the power of Barack Obama's oratory, and that too can be an essential tool in foreign policy.
Obama Is the New Reagan
Jeffrey Hart is professor emeritus of English at Dartmouth College. He wrote for the National Review for more than three decades, where he was senior editor. He wrote speeches for Ronald Reagan while he was governor of California, and for Richard Nixon.
A former Reagan speechwriter says Obama is like The Great Communicator in his style, oratory, and temperament.
Obama's Shocking Cabinet Selections Leak
Bruce McCall is a writer and artist whose satirical works are a staple of The New Yorker and Vanity Fair. His latest book, Marveltown, is climbing the children's best-seller list, albeit, at a stately pace.
Is this an explosive scoop or a crude forgery? Experts, dividing along party lines, disagree.
Limits of a First Term
Thomas H. Geoghegan is a Chicago lawyer and author. Geoghegan is author of See You In Court: How the Right Turned America Into a Lawsuit Nation (2007).
History suggests the change Obama promises won't happen unless he's reelected in 2012.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
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