The Worst Spy Ever
Martin Sieff is the Chief Global Analyst at The Globalist. He was State Department correspondent for the Washington Times and has received three Pulitzer Prize nominations for international reporting.
He thought he was talking to Mossad, but it was really the FBI. How a former NASA scientist, who pleaded not guilty this week to espionage charges, walked into an intelligence trap.
I.F. Stone Was No Spy
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.
Today's news cycle brings "proof" that legendary journalist I.F. Stone was a Soviet spy. Stone's friend and Daily Beast contributor Eric Alterman dissects a decades-old tale that won't go away.
I like spy stuff...and I like comics (though I'm not much of a superhero fan). And Queen and Country the comic series by Greg Rucka is fantastic. Rucka's a genius, Ian Mackintosh-Rucka's inspiration-was also a genius. Tara Chace is one o...
Rachel Maddow hosts MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, featuring Maddow’s take on the biggest stories of the day, political and otherwise, including lively debate with guests from all sides of the issues, in-depth analysis and stories no other shows in cable news will cover. Maddow also continues to host The Rachel Maddow Show on Air America.
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.
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