What the Chattering Class Can Learn From the Heartland
As vice chairman of Public Strategies and president of Maverick Media, Mark McKinnon has helped meet strategic challenges for candidates, corporations and causes, including George W. Bush, John McCain, Governor Ann Richards, Charlie Wilson, Lance Armstrong, and Bono. McKinnon is co-chair of Arts & Labs, a collaboration between technology and creative communities that have embraced today's rich Internet environment to deliver innovative and creative digital products to consumers.
The Daily Beast's Mark McKinnon on why we should ignore the doom-and-gloom message coming from D.C.-and do our part to solve the nation's problems.
Why Kissinger Should Support Obama
Michael Fullilove is the director of the global issues program at the Lowy Institute and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Both candidates want to be the "realist" that Kissinger was, but neither of them will be.
An Evening of Bush Bashing with Scowcroft and Brzezinski
Before joining the Daily Beast, Ross Goldberg worked as a staff reporter on the New York Sun's city desk, where he covered courts as well as general assignments. In college, he served as managing editor of the Yale Daily News.
Two of the country's most influential foreign policy experts on Iraq, McCain's "warts," and Obama's unknowns.
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.
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