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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Mac Is Back
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Reihan Salam is a fellow at the New America Foundation and the co-author of Grand New Party.
Sen. John McCain is more visible than Kerry and Gore were after their losses but he doesn't represent today's GOP-and he knows it. Reihan Salam on why his "honor politics" make him a party of one.
Obama's 10 Best Moves and 5 Worst Stumbles So Far
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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.
He's had enough success to be polling better than a fairy-tale hero right now, but if his miscues start to add up, his popularity rating may fall to "troll."
Bush: The Lamest Duck
Unpopular, rejected, and ignored, Bush is counting the days before he can hand over the presidency to Obama. But with the financial crisis raging, there is still important business to be done. And Bush, though largely impotent, still has some powers with which he can upset the Democrats
The Right Dumps Carrie
John Talks Joe
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.
Geithner's Stock Plummeting
Jeff Madrick is a contributor to the New York Review of Books and a former economics columnist for the New York Times. He is editor of Challenge Magazine, visiting professor of humanities at Cooper Union, and senior fellow at the New School's Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis. He is the author of Taking America, The End of Affluence (Random House) and The Case for Big Government.
Obama, the Un-decider
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
Week in Political Cartoons
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Oprah's Kremlinologist
Rebecca Dana is a culture correspondent for The Daily Beast. A former editor and reporter for the Wall Street Journal, she has also written for the New York Times, the New York Observer, Rolling Stone and Slate, among other publications.
