Missy Suicide has redefined notions of beauty with SuicideGirls, the alternative pinup site she co-founded in 2001. The site has spawned books, two films, a clothing line, and a touring burlesque show.
Chris Regan is a comedy writer who won five Emmy Awards while working on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," and he currently writes for "Frank TV" on TBS and "Talkshow with Spike Feresten" at Fox. He was one of the co-authors of the best-selling America: The Book, and his latest humor book, Mass Historia: 365 Days of Historical Facts and (Mostly) Fictions was recently published by Andrews McMeel.
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.
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.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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.