The First Neocon
Reihan Salam is a fellow at the New America Foundation and the co-author of Grand New Party.
The late Irving Kristol blazed a path from the labor left to the Reaganite right. But he never lost faith in the resilience of democracy-and the disfiguring effects of political rage.
Why Obamacare Scares America
Conor Friedersdorf, a Daily Beast columnist, also writes for The American Scene and The Atlantic Online's ideas blog.
Listen to your grandmother. The Democrats' new health-care plan may benefit working class folks, but the president's sales pitch is giving them a heart attack.
American Dreamer: The Director's Cut
Joel Schumacher is a film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for directing St. Elmo's Fire, The Lost Boys, Falling Down, Flatliners, The Client, Batman Forever, A Time to Kill, The Phantom of the Opera, Phone Booth, The Number 23 and Batman & Robin.
Peter G. Peterson is chairman emeritus and cofounder of The Blackstone Group, chairman emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, founding chairman of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, founding president of The Concord Coalition, and retired chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He is also the founding chairman of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. His most recent book, Running on Empty, was a national bestseller.
Hollywood director Joel Schumacher talks to Peter G. Peterson about what a movie version of his new memoir might be like.
The Times Has It Wrong on Obama
Eric Alterman is a professor of English and journalism at Brooklyn College and a professor of journalism at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. He is the author, most recently, of Why We're Liberals: A Handbook for Restoring America's Important Ideals.
The paper's argument that the president is a sellout ignores the fact that he's only caved on things no one knew he cared about in the first place, like farm subsidies.
Obama's Secret Plan to Raise Taxes
Matt Miller is a management consultant, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and the host of public radio’s popular political week-in-review, Left, Right & Center. His new book is The Tyranny of Dead Ideas.
When Obama returns home, former Clinton adviser Matt Miller says he'll face a mounting budget crisis-and will have to come clean about needing to raise our taxes.
Obama vs. the Democrats
John P. Avlon writes a column for The Daily Beast and is author of the forthcoming Attack of the Wingnuts, to be published in January by Beast Books. He is also the author of Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics. Previously, he served as chief speechwriter for New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and was a columnist and associate editor for The New York Sun.
Fighting with the GOP is nothing compared to battles that await the president in his own party-over Iraq, health care, and entitlement reform. John Avlon on the coming Democratic wars.
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.
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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.
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.
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