A Palin Wardrobe Primer
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When the RNC spent $150,000 on new clothes for Sarah Palin, campaign donors were outraged. But it might have been more scandalous to let Palin pick out her own clothes. VIEW OUR GALLERY of Palin's sartorial evolution.
Time to End Pantsuit-Gate
Linda Hirshman is a retired professor of philosophy. She is the author of Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women of the World, and a columnist at DoubleX.com. She is writing a book about the gay revolution.
With viewers tuned into Palin's much-anticipated Oprah interview, Linda Hirshman explains the sexist double-standard at work over the fuss about the clothes the RNC bought her. Plus, view our gallery of Palin's fashion.
Why Democrats Are Smiling
Eric Alterman is a professor of English and journalism at Brooklyn College and a professor of journalism at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. He is the author, most recently, of Why We're Liberals: A Handbook for Restoring America's Important Ideals.
The elections may have been a mixed bag for the White House, but they certainly didn't signal a Republican renaissance. Far from it-the party's "grassroots patriots" are now headed for war against the moderate apostates.
Racism in the Republican Party
Conor Friedersdorf, a Daily Beast columnist, also writes for The American Scene and The Atlantic Online's ideas blog.
The GOP chairman's comment that some white Republicans are afraid of him is just the latest reminder that our politics are hardly post-racial. Conor Friedersdorf on how the GOP can repair its image-and the myths the left perpetuates.
Obama's Strange Trip
Nicolle Wallace served as a senior adviser to the McCain-Palin campaign from May to November 2008. She served President George W. Bush as an assistant to the president and director of communications for the White House, as well as communications director for President Bush's 2004 campaign.
Afghanistan is teetering. Unemployment's sky high. And health-care reform's in trouble. So why not fly to Copenhagen? Bush strategist Nicolle Wallace on the risks of the president's road trip.
Health Care's Air War
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.
As Congress goes on vacation, tens of millions of dollars will be spent on TV commercials debating the bill. The Daily Beast's Benjamin Sarlin on which side is coming out on top.
So much for bipartisanship: Obama's getting aggressive, Steele is talking smack, and a GOP senator is planning the president's "Waterloo." The latest left and right hooks out of Washington.
Barbour in 2012?
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.
One governor's sex scandal is another's big opportunity. With Mark Sanford besmirched, Mississippi's Haley Barbour is poised for a run in 2012. But will the powerful Republican's murky past get in the way of his-and the party's-future?
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.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
Jolie hunt is the global head of public relations for Thomson Reuters, appointed April 2008. Prior to that she served as global director of corporate and business affairs for IBM Corporation She was the director of PR for the Financial Times. She lives between New York and London.
John Barrasso is the junior senator from Wyoming.
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
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