I recommend reading an article found in the February 2009 issue of Vanity Fair entitled Farewell to All That: An Oral History of the Bush White House by Cullen Murphy and Todd S. Purdum. The article is eye-opening particularly because it...
Asunción “Sunny” Hostin is a legal analyst for CNN. She contributes to CNN's weekday and weekend reporting as well as Headline News. Hostin joined CNN from the Fox News Channel, where she was seen weekly on The O’Reilly Factor’s “Is It Legal?” segment. Hostin is also a managing director of business intelligence and investigations at Kroll, where she leads teams of investigators from all over the world as they investigate fraud and corruption.
Obama's Big Picture
Appearing on 'This Week with George Stephanopoulos,' the president-elect discusses the long view of his presidency and how each American will contribute to it.
Racism is Over is a new faux blog authored by damali ayo, the Oregon-based performance artist who created the hilarious site Rent-a-Negro.com, as in: "What can you give the person who has everything? Give them a new black friend!" Ayo's...
Patricia J. Williams is the author of The Alchemy of Race and Rights; The Rooster's Egg; and Seeing a ColorBlind Future: The Paradox of Race. She is a also a columnist for The Nation.
Barack Obama's appearance on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday, December 7 was especially heartening for anyone who works in or simply enjoys the arts. He told Tom Brokaw that he aimed to have artists, including classical musicians, come r...
Alan Gilbert is the music director designate of the New York Philharmonic, and will begin his tenure as the orchestra's 25th director at the start of the 2009-10 season. Gilbert was chief conductor and artistic adviser of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra from January 2000 to June 2008.
America Suddenly Has Two Presidents
Julian E. Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School. He is the co-editor of Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s and is completing a book on the history of national-security politics since World War II, to be published by Basic Books.
Obama has taken a more active pre-inauguration role than any other president-elect in recent history.
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.
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.
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.
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