Obama's Bad Trip
Richard Wolffe is Daily Beast columnist and an award-winning journalist, and senior strategist at Public Strategies. He covered the entire length of Barack Obama's presidential campaign for Newsweek magazine. His book, Renegade: The Making of a President, was published by Crown in June.
He bowed to Japan. He treaded lightly with China. And then Israel thumbed its nose at Obama's calls to freeze settlements. Richard Wolffe on why the president can't wait to come home.
Marc Rich Spills His Secrets
Allan Dodds Frank is a business investigative correspondent who specializes in white collar crime. He also is President of the Overseas Press Club of America, one of the many journalism organizations that protests the arrests of journalists abroad and repression of freedom of speech.
The fugitive financier's biographer talks to Allan Dodds Frank about Rich's global commodities empire, his connection to U.S. intelligence, and how he bribed world leaders.
Obama's Abortion Sellout?
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Nancy Pelosi sacrificed abortion protections to get health care passed. Peter Beinart argues the tradeoff saves the bill and the party, Amy Siskind says Obama let women down again, and Dana Goldstein asks whether this new wedge issue will tear Dems apart.
How Obama Sold Women Out
The heath-care abortion mess is just the latest example of how Barack Obama took women's votes-then let the country's majority constituency down.
The Real War on Fox
Benjamin Sarlin is a reporter for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.
The White House may be in a cold war with Fox News. But Media Matters is on the front lines. Benjamin Sarlin on the latest ways David Brock's group has hit the right's house network-and aided the White House counterattacks.
Traitor Joe
Paul Begala is a CNN political contributor and a research professor at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute. He was a senior strategist for the 1992 Clinton-Gore campaign and served as counselor to President Clinton in the White House.
The ex-Democrat now says he'll join the GOP in a health-care filibuster. Paul Begala on Lieberman's latest and most shameless betrayal.
My Favorite Pins
Madeleine K. Albright is a principal of The Albright Group LLC, a global strategy firm, and chairwoman and principal of Albright Capital Management LLC, an investment advisory firm focused on emerging markets. In 1997, she was named the first woman secretary of State. From 1993 to 1997, Dr. Albright served as the US permanent representative to the UN. Her latest book is Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership.
In an exclusive look at her new book, Read My Pins, Madeleine Albright shares with The Daily Beast her favorite pins and the remarkable stories they bring to mind.
Obama Does the Clinton Show
Benjamin Sarlin is a reporter for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.
Bill Clinton's annual brainstorming festival, the Clinton Global Initiative, launched in New York on Tuesday. To kick things off, 42 had 44 in-to urge grassroots efforts to combat global problems.
How Bill Got His Mojo Back
Joe Conason writes weekly political columns for The New York Observer and Salon.com. He is also an editor at The Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute. His books include The Hunting of the President: The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (with Gene Lyons); Big Lies; and It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush.
Mocking predictions that he'd be sidelined or prove an irritant to his wife, Clinton is back in business, kicking off his annual meeting this week with an address from Obama.
Don't Short the Surge
Reihan Salam is a fellow at the New America Foundation and the co-author of Grand New Party.
Obama faces liberal pressure to scale back on sending new troops to Afghanistan. Reihan Salam on the dangers-for security and economic stability-of 'playing it safe.'
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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