Life After Oprah
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Kim Masters reports on how Oprah's exit affects television-and what she's got planned-and Lorraine Ali, who appeared as a guest, on the loss of America's mother confessor.
The Hole in Our Lives
Lorraine Ali is a Los Angeles-based culture writer who's covered everything from gay divorce to Christian rock to the Arab American experience. She's a Newsweek Contributing Editor and has written for the New York Times, GQ, Rolling Stone and Esquire. Ali is currently working on a book about her Iraqi family that's due out next year.
Oprah's announced exit from day-time talk is more than a business move. Lorraine Ali on the loss of America's mother confessor-and what it's like to go on the show.
Last of the Red-Hot Lesbians
Gail Eisenberg is the co-writer and co-star of Cat Eisenberg, Dog Eisenberg, an original multiplatform series commissioned by LOGO. She is currently developing a reality series in partnership with Jack Lechner and World of Wonder. Her work has appeared in Time Out New York, The Daily News, and Newsday, as well as on Comedy Central, HBO, and LOGO's first-ever NewNowNext Awards. She is the humor editor of Ducts.org.
As The L Word signs off, series creator Ilene Chaiken reflects on the end of lesbians on TV, the rise of Rachel Maddow, the female Brokeback Mountain, and her even sexier sequel-women in prison.
This week's stock-market plunge is raising new concerns about the depth of the crisis-and rattling even the most unshakable investors. Is anywhere safe for your money? From gold to guns to under the mattress, six smart takes on where to put your money. By Kathleen Kingsbury
Stepping in GOOP
Megan Hustad is the author of How to Be Useful. She has written for The New York Times, Salon, Slate, and American Public Media's Marketplace.
Gwyneth Paltrow's new website about living the way-too-good life could not have launched at a worse time.
Aloe Toilet Paper and Other Corners You Shouldn't Cut
Jessi Klein is a writer and comedian who has frequently appeared on Comedy Central, CNN, VH1, and the Today show. She also likes to think she has value as a human being aside from her numerous credits in the entertainment industry.
The stupidest ways you could possibly save money in these desperate times.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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