The Brünos Who Surround Us
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.
Sacha Baron Cohen's new film is a satire of the highest form, says Lee Siegel-one that exposes the reckless ego in us all as we scurry to get in on his game, with no questions asked.
The Myth of Online Predators
Skenazy is founder of freerangekids.com and author of Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry.
Internet child molesters may be the modern parent's great fear but new research suggests this electronic monster is mainly the stuff of bad dreams.
An FBI sting operation in Georgia that resulted in four arrests is rapidly becoming a nationwide raid on a 1,500-member assisted-suicide ring. Their target, known as the Final Exit Network, boasts that it's the only group that assists suicides for the non-terminally ill. Now authorities are trying to determine how many more deaths the group had a hand in.
Barack 'N' Roll
From 2005 to the end of 2008, William Triplett was head of the Washington, D.C., bureau of Variety.
When media reports surfaced earlier in the year that he had an ongoing e-mail "relationship" with Scarlett Johansson-not exactly known for her sage political advice ala David Axelrod-Obama went out of his way to downplay it.
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.
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.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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