The Myth of the Wall's Fall
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.
The Berlin Wall, toppled 20 years ago today, was brought down by Ronald Reagan's hawkish stand, right? Peter Beinart explodes conventional wisdom-crediting Reagan's dovish side instead.
The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
Jude Law and Carrie Fisher debuted on Broadway, Chris Rock made a film about black women's hair, we lost Gourmet, and more from the worlds of TV, film, and art.
This weekend, one of the year's most talked about indie films hits theaters. An Education, written by Nick Hornby and adapted from a memoir by Brit...
10 Summer Schlockbusters!
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Transformers was pulverized by critics, but is cleaning up at the box office. The Daily Beast ranks the highest grossing god-awful movies of all time.
A Mother-Son Book Bake-Off
Hyatt Bass is the author of The Embers, published by Henry Holt.
Hyatt Bass wrote a novel, The Embers. Her 5-year-old son wrote a book from a kit, The Super-brothers. And when both books launched at once, chaos ensued in their home.
David Carr on the NY Times and Star Trek
Rachel Sklar is the Editor-at-Large for Mediaite.com and a contributor to the Daily Beast. She was formerly a senior writer and editor at the Huffington Post and is currently working on Jew-ish, a humorous book about cultural identity. She recently launched online micro-giving site Charitini, and Twitters up a storm here.
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In this episode of The Daily Beast's new video series, Have a Drink With, Rachel Sklar talks Twitter, the pleasures of Diet Coke, and Star Trek versus Star Wars with David Carr of The New York Times.
Is Paris Hilton Killing Science?
Nash Landesman is a Daily Beast intern. He worked and wrote for Men's Vogue prior to his arrival.
Theoretical physicist and bestselling author Michio Kaku talks about time travel, invisibility coats, why celebrities are hurting America's technological edge-and how Obama may be the next savior of science.
After surviving pancreatic cancer, Apple's CEO now says he has a hormone imbalance. How ill is he? And can the company that brought us the iPod and the iPhone prosper without him?
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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