It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's Moses!
Bruce Feiler is the author of Walking the Bible and Abraham and the host of Walking the Bible on PBS. His new book, America’s Prophet: Moses and the American Story, is published Oct. 6.
Superman was based on him, Charlton Heston played him, and politicians quote him-Moses is as American as apple pie, Bruce Feiler writes in his new book, America's Prophet.
Do You Know Your Presidential Snacks
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The Obama-branded peanut M&Ms have landed on Air Force One, but can you recall what other presidents reached for when they had the munchies? Take our quiz on the state of the noshin'.
Presidential Conspiracies
Benjamin Sarlin is a reporter for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.
Obama's "birther" scandal isn't the first wacky theory about a president. From John Adams' royal plot to Mary Lincoln's spy games, Benjamin Sarlin on the nuttiest controversies.
Is the Supreme Court Unconstitutional?
Jonathan Blitzer is a freelance writer and translator living in New York. He also works at the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU Law School.
As Sotomayor faces confirmation, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James MacGregor Burns' Packing the Court lambastes the bench for being too political and unaccountable to the public.
Nothing Happened on the Fourth
Step away from the grill: Bestselling historian Joseph Ellis says we're celebrating our nation's independence on the wrong day. How history screwed up the date.
Political Affairs
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Senator John Ensign joins a notable fraternity of men with presidential ambitions who have also had famous indiscretions. From Sally Hemings to Monica Lewinsky, VIEW OUR GALLERY of famous mistresses.
JFK's rumored mistress was the source of most of the chatter surrounding their relationship. Although she maintained that they had a two-year affai...
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.
'And So Liberia Was Born'
Prior to becoming President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was head of the Governance Reform Commission of Liberia, Deputy Director of the United Nations Development Program, and an economist at the World Bank. She was the first Chairwoman of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) and the first female Finance Minister of Liberia. She lives in Monrovia, Liberia.
In an exclusive excerpt from the Liberian president's memoir, she recounts the birth of her nation as a colony for freed slaves sent "back" from America.
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.
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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