Death-Row Pen Pals
Deidre Depke, a New York writer, is a former assistant managing editor of Newsweek.
A Texas inmate, executed Wednesday, sought companionship via the Internet before his death. Inside the death-row pen-pal business-and how felons bid for friends.
The New Blue-Collar Hungry
Sasha Abramsky is the author of Breadline USA. His next book, a profile of President Barack Obama titled Inside Obama’s Brain, is being published by Penguin’s Portfolio imprint in early December.
Forget what you thought you knew about hunger in America-in the new economy, even working parents and their kids are short on food. Inside a growing epidemic that's even encompassing dual-income families. Plus: How to help.
Polygamy Tourism
Arizona journalist Terry Greene Sterling is Writer-in-Residence at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. She blogs about people in the shadows of America's kidnapping capital at http://www.terrygreenesterling.com.
For $69.95, a pair of former Mormon fundamentalists will give you "The Polygamy Experience": a tour of some of America's most isolated and mysterious communities.
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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