Ralph Nader's Fantasies
Samuel P. Jacobs is a staff reporter at The Daily Beast. He has also written for The Boston Globe, The New York Observer, and The New Republic Online.
You know him as a consumer crusader and presidential candidate. But he's a novelist. He insists he's funny. And he wants Mike Bloomberg to run for the White House in 2012.
Ralph Nader, Novelist
Samuel P. Jacobs is a staff reporter at The Daily Beast. He has also written for The Boston Globe, The New York Observer, and The New Republic Online.
Al Gore's nemesis has written a new novel about billionaires who save the planet. From Barbara Boxer to Scooter Libby, TAKE OUR QUIZ and match the politicos to their prose.
The Liberal Sweatshop
Luke Rosiak, an investigative and computer-assisted reporter at the Sunlight Foundation in Washington, DC, is a former reporter for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle and researcher for the Center for Responsive Politics. He has written about money in politics for publications such as Politico.
The Fund for the Public Interest raises money for all kinds of liberal causes, but a lawsuit has forced it to pay millions of dollars in overtime to its legions of idealistic door-knockers.
Iran's Riveting Political Drama
Reza Aslan, a contributor to the Daily Beast, is assistant professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside and senior fellow at the Orfalea Center on Global and International Studies at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of the bestseller No god but God and How to Win a Cosmic War.
No matter who wins on Friday, this election season has been unlike any other in Iran, with Twittering political rallies, rancorous televised debates-and a challenger that has Ahmadinejad lifting pages from Obama's playbook. The Daily Beast hits the streets in Iran to gauge the mood.
Ralph Nader Should Be Blacklisted
Touré is a columnist for The Daily Beast. He's also an NBC contributor and the author of Never Drank the Kool-Aid, Soul City, and The Portable Promised Land. He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, was CNN's first pop culture correspondent, and was the host of MTV2's Spoke N Heard. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker and the New York Times.
When he called Obama an "Uncle Tom" and wouldn't apologize, Ralph Nader effectively cancelled out his own credibility.
My Night With Sean Penn
Peace Mom and congressional candidate in California's 8th District.
Congressional candidate and "peace mom" Cindy Sheehan was Sean Penn's date at the Milk world premiere on Tuesday night. And she went there looking for a fight.
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.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
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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.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
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