Smoking Weeds
Shawna Malcom writes about TV for the Los Angeles Times, PEOPLE and Variety and is an on-air correspondent for the TV Guide Network. She was previously a senior writer at TV Guide magazine and began her career at Entertainment Weekly.
The pot-dealer comedy moved from the L.A. suburbs to a dingy border town in its fourth season-and picked up its first Best Comedy nomination along the way.
Queenpins of the Drug Cartels
Constantino Diaz-Duran is a writer living in Manhattan. He has written for the New York Post, the Washington Blade, El Diario NY and the Orange County Register.
As President Obama heads for Mexico today, he will find a country wracked not just by drug kingpins-but by a group of smart, ruthless women who have cracked the grass ceiling of the country's deadly narcotics ring.
Mexico's Mob Violence Moves North
Constantino Diaz-Duran is a writer living in Manhattan. He has written for the New York Post, the Washington Blade, El Diario NY and the Orange County Register.
Organized crime in Mexico has nearly taken over the country and is quickly spreading into the States, with guns blazing.
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.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
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.
Partner Sites: Expedia| Hotels| Hotwire| Urbanspoon| Vimeo
