Another Tragedy: Bloomberg's Spanish
As if the plane crash weren't bad enough, Mayor Bloomberg decided to open his press conference today with a few words in Spanish, con his acento terrible.
Come here to DC (isn't everybody?) and catch some pleasant surprises-three examples of top-quality musical theater! We enjoyed the very slick, Broadway-bound West Side Story, where the obviously new element is that the Puerto Ricans spea...
Dan Raviv is host of a radio magazine, The CBS News Weekend Roundup, and author of a book on US-Israel relations, Friends in Deed, and a bestseller on Israeli intelligence, Every Spy a Prince.
Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean
Edward Kritzler is a historian and a former New York-based reporter. He lives in Kingston, Jamaica.
In his new book, Ed Kritzler unlocks an unknown chapter in Jewish history-the Iberian Jews who escaped the fires of the Inquisition in the 17th century and conspired with Holland and England to seize a New World colony. Read an excerpt here.
The Jewish Conquistadors
Edward Kritzler is a historian and a former New York-based reporter. He lives in Kingston, Jamaica.
Read an excerpt from Ed Kritzler's new book which unlocks an unknown chapter in Jewish history-the Iberian Jews who escaped the fires of the Inquisition in the 17th century and conspired with Holland and England to seize a New World colony.
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.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
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.
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