Nicole LaPorte is a West Coast reporter for The Daily Beast. A former film reporter for Variety, she has also written for The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Observer, and W.
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Obama and Bibi Face to Face
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President Obama will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu next week in Washington as tensions rise between the U.S. and Israel. Peter Beinart on the fallout for Netanyahu in the Mideast, former U.S. ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk on the way forward, and Lloyd Grove on why a number of powerful American Jewish leaders are upset with Obama.
Our Hottest Stories of 2009
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Tina Brown told Hillary to take off her burqa, Gerald Posner revealed Tiger's new prenup, and then there was that Iranian porn tape. The best reads from The Daily Beast this year.
Nobel Smackdown
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Peter Beinart and Thaddeus Russell weigh in on Obama's acceptance speech: Was it a sharp turn from the Bush doctrine or more of the same?
The Nobel War Prize
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Thaddeus Russell is the author of the forthcoming A Renegade History of the United States (Free Press/Simon & Schuster, 2010). He teaches history and cultural studies at Occidental College and has taught at Columbia University, Barnard College, Eugene Lang College, and the New School for Social Research.
Obama didn't apologize for being a wartime president receiving a peace prize in Oslo-he laid the groundwork for battle, and outdid Bush in arguing for American supremacy.
The Opposite of Rousing
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, will be published by HarperCollins in June. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
The goals were narrow, and delivered without regard to America's moral obligation to Afghanistan. Peter Beinart on Obama's missed opportunity.
Did America Buy It?
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The Daily Beast experts Peter Beinart, Nicolle Wallace, Tunku Varadarajan, Christopher Brownfield, Saad Mohseni, Ret. Col. Ken Allard, Elise Jordan, and Benjamin Sarlin weigh in on Obama's Afghanistan battle cry.
Crib Notes On Obama's Nobel
Left and right agree: He didn't deserve it. The Daily Beast's guide to getting past the conventional wisdom on the lightning bolt from Oslo.
Will Hillary's Gambit Work?
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, will be published by HarperCollins in June. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
In her big speech Wednesday, Hillary Clinton told the world she is staking out a foreign policy that was more inclusive than George W. Bush's. But is it too naïve?
Finally Some Straight Talk on the Deficit
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, will be published by HarperCollins in June. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
After years of evasiveness by the GOP, finally some frank talk about deficits from Obama and even from Hillary in China.
Ignore the Republicans
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, will be published by HarperCollins in June. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
It doesn't matter what the GOP says about the stimulus package or how they vote on it. If the economy is better off in four years, they lose.
How Oscars Ruin a Marriage
The Pure Greed of Obama's Phony Health-Care Reform
Michael Moore is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker and author. He directed and produced Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, and Sicko. He has also written seven books, most recently, Mike’s Election Guide 2008.
The Honorable Press Baron
The author of six books, Steve Weinberg has been a longtime board member of the National Book Critics Circle and currently teaches investigative journalism at the University of Missouri Journalism School. He lives in Columbia, Missouri.
My Pal Paul Newman
A. E. Hotchner is the author of the international bestsellers Papa Hemingway, Doris Day: Her Own Story, Sophia, and his own memoir, King of the Hill. He has adapted many of Hemingway's works for the screen.
Women in The World Featured Panel: Rape as a Weapon of War
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