Divya Gugnani is the CEO and founder of BehindtheBurner.com, an emerging culinary media brand that creates expert-based content about food, wine, mixology, and nutrition.
Tags
Harold Ford's Money Mountain
Info
Benjamin Sarlin is Washington correspondent for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.
Harold Ford Jr. is weighing a bid for New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's seat only four years after he ran for Senate in Tennessee. Benjamin Sarlin on Ford's biggest hurdle: raising the cash.
Questions for Obama's Car Czar
Info
Edward Jay Epstein studied government at Cornell and Harvard, and received a PhD from Harvard in 1973. The Big Picture: The New Logic of Money and Power in Hollywood is his 13th book. The sequel, The Hollywood Economist will be published in January 2010.
Why did Quadrangle Group, run by Steven Rattner whom the president has chosen as the auto industry's fix-it man, have a subsidiary buy the DVD rights to Chooch, a movie co-produced by a pension-fund official? It's among the many things New York's attorney general needs to figure out.
The new NYT series The Reckoning is amongst the best stuff I've read on the meltdown situation. They shed important light on how we got into this mess without a lot of the hyperbole, hyperventilating and simply wrong headed notions that ...
Info
Steven Rattner is an American financier and private equity investor. He is founder and managing principal at private investment firm Quadrangle Group, which invests in media and communications companies in the United States, Europe and Asia. Rattner started his career as a reporter with the New York Times, but left journalism for Lehman Brothers and subsequently, Morgan Stanley. Before Quadrangle, he was the deputy chairman and CEO of Lazard bank.
10 Power Food Combos
How Obama Wins in 2012
As vice chairman of Public Strategies and president of Maverick Media, Mark McKinnon has helped meet strategic challenges for candidates, corporations and causes, including George W. Bush, John McCain, Governor Ann Richards, Charlie Wilson, Lance Armstrong, and Bono.
Heroine of the Hour
Sean Wilentz is a history professor at Princeton University whose books include The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln and The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008. He is a contributing editor at The New Republic, and historian-in residence at Bob Dylan's official website.
What Are We About to Pass?
The Daily Beast is dedicated to news and commentary, culture, and entertainment. We carefully curate the web’s most essential stories and bring you original must-reads from our talented contributors.
Seven Years On
The Daily Beast is dedicated to news and commentary, culture, and entertainment. We carefully curate the web’s most essential stories and bring you original must-reads from our talented contributors.
