College Can Wait…And Wait
Kathleen Kingsbury covers education for The Daily Beast. She also contributes to Time magazine, where she has covered business, health and education since 2005.
An increasingly popular way to stand out to admissions officers: "gap years." Kathleen Kingsbury explains why high school seniors are taking 12 months off-and how Obama's stimulus package encourages it.
The Day Obama Fell to Earth
Andrew Neil is a publisher and broadcaster working out of London, New York, Dubai, and the south of France. He is chairman and editor in chief of Press Holdings Media Group, publishers of The Spectator, Spectator Business, and Apollo.
All is not quite what is being claimed for the London summit, says Andrew Neil. In fact, the president didn't get what he came for.
Buffett Slams Democrats
Warren Buffett makes no secret of having voted for President Obama, but that doesn't mean he's thrilled about the earmarks in his stimulus bill. Clip above; full interview here.
Do the Markets Hate Obama?
Paul Kedrosky is the editor of the business blog Infectious Greed. He's a senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation, where he is focused on entrepreneurship, innovation, and the future of risk capital. He is also a strategist with Ten Asset Management, a Southern California institutional-money-management firm.
Every time the president or his administration makes a major economic announcement, the Dow takes a dive. But are they actually related? Let's go deep inside the numbers.
California is staring into the economic abyss, with the state's $41 billion deficit threatening to bring mass layoffs and service cuts. As home to the nation's largest economy, the Golden State has long been considered a bellwether for the rest of the country. So which states are following California into economic disaster? By Benjamin Sarlin
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.
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
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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