Chicago Dodged a Bullet
Wonkette emerita, political junkie, self-hating journalist, and author of Dog Days. She has worked for Time, Mother Jones, Suck, and most recently, Radar. Follow her on Twitter.
Don't be sad that Rio got the 2016 Olympic Games. They're corrupt, costly-and cruelly exploitative of athletes anyway. Ana Marie Cox on how Obama's loss is America's gain.
Big Boy Rules is a fascinating, gripping, and ultimately heartbreaking account of private security contractors working in Iraq written by Steve Fainaru, a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the Washington Post. Tens of thou...
Rick Leventhal has been a Correspondent with Fox News Channel since March 1997 and was a local news reporter before that in South Carolina, Miami, West Palm Beach, and Chicago. He’s travelled extensively in the U.S. on breaking news including hurricanes, floods and the Minneapolis bridge collapse. He’s covered stories in more than 20 countries including Israel, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq and was embedded for 7 weeks with the U.S. Marines during the Iraqi invasion in 2003.
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.
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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.
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