The Man Who Got New York Back
Dan Abrams is CEO of Abrams Research, an attorney, and chief legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.
After 34 years as Manhattan's District Attorney, the legendary Robert Morgenthau has announced his retirement. Dan Abrams explains what New York owes to the 89-year-old law enforcer, and why America will miss him.
Obama Should Clean House at Justice
Dan Abrams is CEO of Abrams Research, an attorney, and chief legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.
Bush took firing U.S. Attorneys to a whole new level so it would be poetic justice if President Obama purged the DoJ.
My Trial With Blago's Lawyer
Conrad Black is the author of biographies of Maurice Duplessis, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Richard M. Nixon, was the publisher of the London Telegraph newspapers and Spectator, and founded the National Post of Canada. He has been a life peer in the British House of Lords as Lord Black of Crossharbour since 2001.
Can Eddie Genson's fireworks get a fair trial for the hate figure of the hour?
Even Blago Is Presumed Innocent
Scott Turow is a writer and attorney. He is the author of seven best-selling novels including Presumed Innocent, The Burden of Proof, and Personal Injuries. He frequently contributes essays and op-ed pieces to publications such as The New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Playboy and The Atlantic.
Chicago's preeminent crime novelist on how the Illinois governor can defend himself-and why bribery cases are so hard to prove.
How Zell Screwed Up On Blagojevich
James Warren is a former Chicago Tribune managing editor and is a political analyst for MSNBC.
If Blago pressured the Chicago Tribune owner to fire newspaper staff in return for political favors, Sam Zell should have shared the news with his editor, his publisher, and the prosecutor.
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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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.
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