Why Palin Mania Won't Die
Matt Latimer is the author of the New York Times bestseller, SPEECH-LESS: Tales of a White House Survivor. He was deputy director of speechwriting for George W. Bush and chief speechwriter for Donald Rumsfeld.
Even her own consultants tried to kill her off. Former Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer on why Sarah Palin is still the class of a weak 2012 field.
Caught on Tape
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Sen. Roland Burris was dragged back into the Blagojevich scandal this week when federal prosecutors released an embarrassing wiretapped phone conversation. But Burris is in good company-politicians have been saying incriminating things on tape for decades. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
Burris has faced scrutiny after taking over President Obama's Illinois Senate seat soon after Governor Rod Blagojevich was accused of trying to sel...
Give Ted Stevens His Seat Back
Matt Mackowiak is a political and communications consultant and former Press Secretary to two U.S. Senators.
Now that his guilty verdict has been dismissed, Alaskans are starting to ask whether Ted Stevens got a fair shake in the election that sunk his career. Longtime GOP press secretary Matt Mackowiak asks: What can be done to fix this?
Sarah, You Blew It
Reihan Salam is a fellow at the New America Foundation and the co-author of Grand New Party.
Conservative blogger Reihan Salam once loudly backed America's hockey mom. But as her botched return to Alaska gets even messier, he's ready for a divorce.
It's Good Ted Stevens Got Off
Scott Horton is a law professor and writer on legal and national security affairs for Harper's Magazine and The American Lawyer, among other publications.
Under Bush, the division targeting government corruption was itself riddled with it. The clearing of Sen. Ted Stevens shows that common sense reigns again.
People We'd Like to Throw a Shoe At
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And what we're packin'.
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.
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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.
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.
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