Tory Burch on Empowering Women through Microfinance
Tory Burch is an award-winning designer living in New York. She launched her lifestyle brand in 2004, after working for some of America’s greatest designers, including Ralph Lauren, Vera Wang, and Narciso Rodriguez. In 2009, she launched the Tory Burch Foundation to provide economic support to women and their families.
The recession has hit small businesses and women particularly hard. Fashion mogul Tory Burch on her solution: microloans for struggling women entrepreneurs in the U.S.
Memories of the Powell Administration
Marjorie Williams was a columnist for the Washington Post who also wrote essays on American society and profiles of the political elite. She died in 2005.
In 1995, there were two Republican draft-Colin Powell movements-one led by whites, another by blacks. Both were certain they held the key to the true Powell.
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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