The Yes List – The Thrill of Bored to Death
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Each week, The Daily Beast scours the cultural landscape to choose three top picks. This week, a neurotic author is memorably brought to life by Jason Schwartzman in HBO's Bored to Death.
The First 100 Outfits
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From her signature J. Crew sweaters, to her fashion-forward Jason Wu gowns, VIEW A GALLERY of the wardrobe that's made Michelle Obama the fashion world's new powerhouse.
Obamas Abroad: 9 Great Video Moments
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The Obamas spent most of the past week in Europe, at the G-20 and NATO summits in England and France, respectively. We present eight of our favorite video moments.
Is Michelle the New Oprah?
Tina Brown is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast. She is the author of the 2007 New York Times best seller The Diana Chronicles. Brown is the former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Talk magazines and host of CNBC's Topic A with Tina Brown.
The G-20 trip has kicked Mighty Michelle up to a whole new level.
Prince Not-So-Charming?
Tracy Quan's latest novel is Diary of a Jetsetting Call Girl, set in Provence and praised in The Nation as a "deft account of occupational rigors and anxieties before the crash." Tracy's debut, Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl, and the sequel, Diary of a Married Call Girl, are international bestsellers. A regular columnist for The Guardian, she has written for many publications including Cosmopolitan, The Financial Times, and The New York Times.
Does Prince Harry's "Paki" video prove he was born with a silver foot in his mouth, or does the media just not get the joke?
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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