What Does a Goatee Say About You?
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.
From Brad Pitt to Chuck Todd to Larry the Cable Guy, all types of men are wearing goatees. Bryan Curtis on the beard for all seasons. Plus, a gallery of A-list whiskers.
Should Women Back Palin in 2012?
Obama garnered 56 percent of women's ballots last fall. And they have precious little to show for it from this administration. Amy Siskind on why Sarah Palin deserves a second look.
With ad budgets decreasing, magazine publishers have been forced to fold once-solid titles or reinvent them completely. Which publications will survive the crisis-and which are actually thriving?
It's been four months since California voters approved the election's most contentious ballot initiative, the anti-gay-marriage Proposition 8. The state constitutional amendment-which defines marriage as only between a man and a woman-sparked national outrage from gay-rights supporters, as well as some legal experts, who argue the measure was an illegal constitutional revision. Could the initiative-which has drawn the wrath of everyone from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Melissa Ethridge to Sean Penn-go up in flames?
The End of the Culture Wars
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.
Forget Iraq and the economy. Barack Obama's greatest feat may be ending the ruinous, decades-long battle over race and religion that has plagued the Democratic Party.
The 'Out' Crowd at the Inauguration
Megan Carpentier is a freelance writer and an editor at Jezebel.com whose work has also been seen on Foreign Policy magazine's Madame Secretary blog, Glamour's political blog, on Wonkette, in Radar, and at WashingtonPost.com. Before regaining some semblance of a soul, she was a Very Serious Washington lobbyist who kept her unpaid opinions to herself.
Even as they sipped Obama-tinis and danced to Melissa Etheridge, the revelers at the LGBT ball on Tuesday night questioned whether Obama's soaring rhetoric about equality will be backed up by his policies on gay issues.
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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