Flunk the Far Right
As vice chairman of Public Strategies and president of Maverick Media, Mark McKinnon has helped meet strategic challenges for candidates, corporations and causes, including George W. Bush, John McCain, Governor Ann Richards, Charlie Wilson, Lance Armstrong, and Bono. McKinnon is co-chair of Arts & Labs, a collaboration between technology and creative communities that have embraced today's rich Internet environment to deliver innovative and creative digital products to consumers.
President Obama's inspirational back-to-school message to students today is getting eviscerated by critics as a conspiracy to indoctrinate the nation's children. When the president can't tell students to stay in school without causing an uproar, we've reached a new low.
Presidents and Pupils Don't Mix
Conor Friedersdorf, a Daily Beast columnist, also writes for The American Scene and The Atlantic Online's ideas blog.
Yes, the right's complaints about Obama's schoolhouse chat are cynical and paranoid. But there is a reasoned case for keeping him-and any president-out of the classroom.
In her latest critically acclaimed novel, On Beauty, Zadie Smith skewers academia for its pomposity. But the award-winning British writer can't see...
Sandwiches That Kill
Laura Bennett was trained as an architect but has since established her career as a fashion designer by becoming a finalist on Season 3 of Bravo's Project Runway. Bennett lives amid complete chaos in New York City with her husband and six children, Cleo, 20, Peik, 13, Truman, 10, Pierson, 6, Larson, 5, and Finn, 2.
Our children are now taught that a classmate might die right in front of them if they bring PB&J for lunch. Where were these kids when we were in school?
Why Did Israel Bomb a School?
NBC's Richard Engel reports that the Gaza school Israel bombed may have been used to store weapons, and gives the latest on a possible truce. Source: MSNBC
The School of Life. This is a school for everyone based on an ordinary shopping street in London, offering instruction in the great questions of life. This place isn't evangelical or naively self-help. It serves up an academically sound ...
Alain de Botton is the author of essayistic books, written in a style of writing that has been termed a philosophy of everyday life. His book, Essays in Love, minutely analyses the process of falling in and out of love.
What to Tell the Children?
Suzy Welch is a noted commentator and business journalist, is the former editor of the Harvard Business Review, and has written extensively on management and leadership.
Talking to your kids about the crash.
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.
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.
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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