How Obama's New Tech Tsar Can Save America
Nicholas Ciarelli is an assistant product manager at The Daily Beast.
The Silicon Valley wizards behind Wikipedia, Craigslist, and other wonders of the Web offer advice to America's first chief technology officer.
Republicans are desperately scrambling to implicate the president-elect in Governor Blagojevich's seat-shopping scandal- giving him his first major P.R.. crisis. But the prosecutor's request that Obama remain silent about the case until next week has complicated matters. Will "No Drama Obama" finally lose his cool?
FDR Would Never Have Passed This Test
Julian E. Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School. He is the co-editor of Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s and is completing a book on the history of national-security politics since World War II, to be published by Basic Books.
Were Obama to apply his standards to presidents past, he'd miss out on greats like Jefferson, Jackson, and Kennedy.
Could a Messy Hand-Off at Homeland Security Leave the U.S. Vulnerable?
Jacob Goodwin is editor in chief of GSN: Government Security News, a trade publication that covers homeland-security issues. He can be contacted at jgoodwin@gsnmagazine.com.
Distracted by other issues, neither campaign has addressed the tricky handoff at DHS.
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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