The Charmed Life of a Traitor
Harold Evans, author of two histories of America, is writing his memoir. Editor at large of The Week, he was editor of The Sunday Times from 1967-81 and The Times from 1981-82, founding editor of Condé Nast Traveler, and president of Random House Trade Group from 1990-97.
In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, My Paper Chase, Harold Evans recounts how The Sunday Times unmasked Kim Philby, the most notorious spy of the Cold War.
Hillary and the 'Woman Thing'
Tina Brown is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast. She is the author of the 2007 New York Times best seller The Diana Chronicles. Brown is the former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Talk magazines and host of CNBC's Topic A with Tina Brown.
Losing her life's dream (or being freed from it?) has pressed the secretary of State's reset button in an interesting way.
First Lady Faceoff
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Michelle Obama, Carla Bruni, and Japan's space-traveling first lady are making Pittsburgh fabulous this week. VIEW OUR GALLERY of sizzling G-20 wives-and Angela Merkel's husband.
Uighurs Protest in Turkey
A protest erupted into a minor brawl near the Chinese consulate in Istanbul Sunday, with Uighurs attempting to plow through a police barricade.
How to End the Nuclear Threat
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Amid escalating violence in Pakistan and renewed threats from North Korea, Madeleine Albright and 13 other former foreign ministers provide an exclusive step-by-step proposal for keeping nuclear risks at bay.
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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