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.
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'Tricky Dick' vs. the Pink Lady
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Sally Denton is a writer based in Santa Fe and author of six books, including The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America and the forthcoming The Pink Lady: The Many Lives of Helen Gahagan Douglas (Bloomsbury Press).
Nixon's victory over Helen Gahagan Douglas was one of the nastiest in history. In an exclusive excerpt from The Pink Lady, Sally Denton revisits the infamous Senate campaign.
Palin's Noxious Ghostwriter
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Max Blumenthal is a senior writer for The Daily Beast, writing fellow at The Nation Institute and author of Republican Gomorrah (Basic/Nation Books). Contact him at maxblumenthal3000@yahoo.com.
How the failed GOP veep nominee turned to a gay-bashing ghostwriter and a blogger tied to white supremacist groups to craft her image and autobiography.
Next Battle for Health Care
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Matthew Yglesias is a Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. He is the author of Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats.
Obama and the Democrats won a huge victory in the House, but a minefield awaits in the Senate-and it has nothing to do with the public option.
Rick Hertzberg's Victory Dance
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Bryan Curtis is a senior editor at The Daily Beast. His story about his grandfather’s softball career is in The Best American Sports Writing of 2009.
With ¡Obamanos!, his exuberant new collection chronicling the rise of the president, The New Yorker's witty political sage celebrates the good guys finally winning.
Dangers Come After Year One
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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.
How the GOP Loses Women
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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.
Dede Scozzafava's exit from a New York House race is just the latest example of the new Republican Party's hostility to pro-choice women. Linda Hirshman on why Sarah Palin is a club of one.
Racism in the Republican Party
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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.
Greatest Second Acts
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Garth Brooks just ended his retirement to tour again. From Cher and Brett Favre to Richard Nixon and Jay-Z, VIEW OUR GALLERY of celebrity comebacks.
10 Craziest Media Hoaxes
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As young Falcon Heene's would-be balloon flight has proved to be an orchestrated hoax, we look back at other instances of stories the media flubbed.
A Short History of Health-Care Disasters
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The Daily Beast is dedicated to news and commentary, culture, and entertainment. We carefully curate the web’s most essential stories and bring you original must-reads from our talented contributors.
With Tuesday's vote in the Senate Finance Committee, President Obama's push for health-care reform came closer to final passage than any president's in history. And it's quite a history. The Daily Beast looks at Obama's predecessors, from Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton, and how close they got to the finish line.
The Right Dumps Carrie
John Talks Joe
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.
Geithner's Stock Plummeting
Jeff Madrick is a contributor to the New York Review of Books and a former economics columnist for the New York Times. He is editor of Challenge Magazine, visiting professor of humanities at Cooper Union, and senior fellow at the New School's Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis. He is the author of Taking America, The End of Affluence (Random House) and The Case for Big Government.
Gal With a Suitcase
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.
What's Missing From The Health Care Reform Bill
John Barrasso is the junior senator from Wyoming.
Obama, the Un-decider
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.
