Rick Hertzberg's Victory Dance
Bryan Curtis is a senior editor at The Daily Beast. His story about his grandfather’s softball career is in The Best American Sports Writing of 2009.
With ¡Obamanos!, his exuberant new collection chronicling the rise of the president, The New Yorker's witty political sage celebrates the good guys finally winning.
August 23: Top 7 Moments From Sunday Talk
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McCain defends Palin's 'death panel' remarks, Paul Krugman says we're in economic purgatory, and Joe Lieberman tells Alec Baldwin to 'make my day.' That and more in our Sunday roundup.
The Right-Wing Op-Ed Insurgency
Samuel P. Jacobs is a staff reporter at The Daily Beast. He has also written for The Boston Globe, The New York Observer, and The New Republic Online.
Liberal bias? A Daily Beast investigation crunches the numbers and shows how conservative think tanks have quietly achieved domination over the opinion pages of America's biggest papers.
July 26: 7 Best Moments From Sunday Talk
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Hillary Clinton dismisses Iran's nuclear ambitions, Paul Krugman and Nancy Pelosi share (guardedly) optimistic outlooks for the economy, and Bill Kristol fires back at Obama's "stupidly" comment. All this and more in this week's Sunday talk roundup.
Bank profits are up, job numbers are down, and the market is erratic-is the economy any closer to a rebound? Six smart takes from business leaders and Nobel laureates.
Interview With Mellody Hobson
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As president of Ariel Investments and its billions of dollars in assets, Mellody Hobson's ear is close to the ground on the economy. The Daily Beast talked to her about the latest employment numbers, the government's response, and what it will take to get business back on the right track.
Obama's Clueless Liberal Critics
Bruce Bartlett helped develop supply-side economics while on the staff of Rep. Jack Kemp in the 1980s. In 2006 he was fired by a conservative think tank for writing a book critical of George W. Bush from a conservative point of view, Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy. His new book, The New American Economy: The Failure of Reaganomics and a New Way Forward, was published Oct. 13.
Conservative economist Bruce Bartlett-who shocked the GOP establishment by backing Obama-now says the far left is being too hard on the president's stimulus plan.
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.
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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