How Rumors Rule Washington
Nominated to a White House job, legal scholar Cass Sunstein has become a victim of the very thing he writes books about: conspiracy theories and paranoid rumors.
Happy Birthday, Mr. President!
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Forty-eight years after he was born in Hawaii-sorry, birthers-The Daily Beast takes a look at Obama's life in pictures, from toddler-dom in Hawaii to marrying Michelle and playing with Bo. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
In May 2008, the then-senator shares a moment with wife Michelle on the campaign trail at a Hamilton County family picnic in Noblesville, Indiana.
The Squid and the Whale of a Book
Taylor Antrim is a critic for The Daily Beast and the author of the novel The Headmaster Ritual.
With his ambitious fourth novel about a family of oddball Chicago scientists, Joe Meno swings for the fences in The Great Perhaps. It's a touching, 400-page tale of Big Themes-with Nazi secrets, a lesbian crush, and a don't-worry-be-happy ending.
College Admissions Hell
Kathleen Kingsbury covers education for The Daily Beast. She also contributes to Time magazine, where she has covered business, health and education since 2005.
After a brutal week for college applicants, admissions officers dish about the tough decisions, the role money played-and the nasty calls they're getting from parents.
Ms. Jarrett Goes To Washington
What makes Valerie Jarrett unusual in the Obama world is that she is a friend and confidant of both Michelle and Barack.
Obamaville
Don Rose is a political consultant and head of Don Rose Communications and The Urban Political Group. Rose writes about political and cultural affairs, as well as food and travel, publishing a weekly dining-out column in the Chicago Sun-Times for 16 years.
Chicago, the thriving cultural capital, is finally getting its due.
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.
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