Behind the Democratic Wipeout
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.
The GOP built its victories in Virginia and New Jersey on financial anxieties. The Daily Beast's Peter Beinart on why the economy drove voters to the polls-and what the results say about 2010.
Obama Needs a Left
Michael Kazin’s most recent book is A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan. He teaches history at Georgetown University and is the co-editor of Dissent.
For the president to have a chance at becoming another FDR, he needs a big push from the left-or the conservative assumptions that have kept the nation in thrall for the past three decades will continue to hold sway.
Echoes of Black Tuesday
Nomi Prins is author of It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bonuses, Bailouts, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street (Wiley, September, 2009). Before becoming a journalist, she worked on Wall Street as a managing director at Goldman Sachs, and running the international analytics group at Bear Stearns in London.
Eighty years ago today, the stock market dove more than 11 percent on record volume. The crash, like our own, was a wakeup call for change, says Nomi Prins-but Obama isn't heeding the lessons of FDR and changing the banking landscape.
Just the Fact: Hemingway's Hand Grenades
Terry Mort studied with Hemingway’s official biographer, Carlos Baker, at Princeton. He served as an officer in the Navy and spent three years on active duty, including a deployment to Vietnam and subsequent patrols of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. He is the author of three novels as well as a book on fly-fishing and has edited works by Mark Twain, Jack London and Zane Grey.
Authors tell The Daily Beast about the most surprising factoid in their books. This week, Terry Mort on Ernest Hemingway's hare-brained habit of chasing U-boats with a sack full of small bombs.
Washington's stimulus-spenders should make sure they read Amity Shlaes' The Forgotten Man as a cautionary tale. It's caused many economic policy wonks to take a new look at the complex causes of the Great Depression and the ways in which...
Margaret Hoover is an American conservative feminist, political commentator, Republican strategist, and blogger. She is the great-granddaughter of former President Herbert Hoover. Most recently, she has worked as Deputy Finance Director to Rudy Giuliani’s Presidential Exploratory Committee. She is a frequent contributor to Fox News's O'Reilly Factor.
I am reading The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes. Written in 2007, it tells the true story of the Depression and the failure of efforts at recovery. Unlike conservative books, it goes after Hoover and...
Dick Morris, the former chief strategist to Bill Clinton, is a Fox News contributor and a columnist for the New York Post and The Hill. He and his wife, Eileen McGann are the authors of the #2 New York Times bestseller, Fleeced, and ten other books. You can read all his columns and get them emailed to you for free by logging onto www.dickmorris.com.
Even before she announced her desire to replace Hillary Clinton as the junior senator from New York, Caroline Kennedy had become a galvanizing figure in national politics. Was she worthy of the office once held by her uncle Robert? Or is she, as Elizabeth Wurtzel suggested in The Daily Beast this week, someone who "has shown no evidence of being able to hold down a regular job"?
How Obama Can Restore American Idealism
Ted Widmer directs the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. He was a speechwriter and senior adviser to President Clinton.
We have all heard the power of Barack Obama's oratory, and that too can be an essential tool in foreign policy.
Why The Right Should Leave FDR Alone
Conrad Black is the author of biographies of Maurice Duplessis, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Richard M. Nixon, was the publisher of the London Telegraph newspapers and Spectator, and founded the National Post of Canada. He has been a life peer in the British House of Lords as Lord Black of Crossharbour since 2001.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and his policies that led the country out of the Great Depression have been unfairly maligned.
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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