The Journey of the American Woman
Christine Stansell is Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor at The University of Chicago. Her book on the history of feminism will be published by Random House next year.
Gail Collins' new book tells the story of American women since the 1950s, writes Christine Stansell-and shows us that the depressing mess left when an old order crumbles is still preferable to the tidiness of a once-immovable status quo.
Dangers Come After Year One
Dr. Larry J. Sabato is the university professor of politics at the University of Virginia and director of the Center for Politics, founded at UVA in 1998 to improve civic education and the political process. Sabato's political analysis can be found at the Crystal Ball. The author of more than 20 books, his most recent is The Year of Obama: How Barack Obama Won the White House.
History has taught us not to take presidential first years too seriously: No one foresaw how Vietnam would doom LBJ or Watergate would unhorse Nixon.
Why Keynes Is King
Lord Robert Skidelsky, emeritus professor of political economy at the University of Warwick, is the acclaimed biographer of John Maynard Keynes. He was made a life peer in 1991, and was elected fellow of the British Academy in 1994. He lives in London.
Keynes biographer Robert Skidelsky explains why after decades of being ignored the economist is back-and why we ought to keep his warnings in mind, even as the economy restarts.
My Inside Tips for Sonia
Kenneth Duberstein, Ronald Reagan’s White House chief of staff, is now chairman of the Duberstein Group.
How can Sotomayor assure her confirmation? Former Reagan Chief of Staff Ken Duberstein, who guided Kennedy, Souter, and Thomas, shares 10 secrets for a smooth trip to the High Court.
Welcome Back, 1980s!
Alisa Gould-Simon is a Brooklyn-based freelance writer. She also covers fashion and culture for BlackBook, New York magazine, and PAPER among other publications.
From acid wash to neon prints to parachute pants, '80s trends have returned to the 2009 runways. A look at which clothes made it back to the future-and how to wear them now.
More Reagan Than Kennedy
Andrew Neil is a publisher and broadcaster working out of London, New York, Dubai, and the south of France. He is chairman and editor in chief of Press Holdings Media Group, publishers of The Spectator, Spectator Business, and Apollo.
A European-style social democrat in the White House? Think again.
Are Conservatives Turning on Israel?
Appearing on 'Morning Joe,' Peggy Noonan asks whether Israel's 'martial' history has made it too confident about the results war will produce. Click here for more 'Morning Joe' video.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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