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Smartest (and Dumbest) College Towns
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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.
With college bowl season kicking off last night, The Daily Beast crunched the numbers to determine a more prestigious champion: the smartest college town in America. Where does yours rank?
Black Friday, Zombie Holiday
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Mike Albo is a writer and performer who lives and loves in Brooklyn. His second novel, (written with Virginia Heffernan) is the cult humor classic The Underminer: The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life. You can find him at mikealbo.com.
If shopping is a sport, then Black Friday is the Super Bowl. Mike Albo argues that the yearly hysteria over Bionicles and Barbies reflects a dark vision of how we buy.
How Colleges Dupe Students
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Kathleen Kingsbury covers education for The Daily Beast. She also contributes to Time magazine, where she has covered business, health and education since 2005.
As prospective students begin visiting campuses, universities are working hard to appear picture-perfect. Insiders tell Kathleen Kingsbury how not to get fooled by the scripted charade.
Best Value Colleges
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Kathleen Kingsbury covers education for The Daily Beast. She also contributes to Time magazine, where she has covered business, health and education since 2005.
How are families supposed to afford college tuition during the Great Recession? The Daily Beast's Kathleen Kingsbury presents North America's best value institutions of higher learning.
20 Colleges Worth the Price
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Kathleen Kingsbury covers education for The Daily Beast. She also contributes to Time magazine, where she has covered business, health and education since 2005.
With the economy tanking and lending down, who can afford tuition? From low prices to hefty scholarships to creative accounting, Kathleen Kingsbury ranks the schools with the highest marks in value.
What's Is (and Isn't) in the Health-Care Bill
10 Power Food Combos
Divya Gugnani is the CEO and founder of BehindtheBurner.com, an emerging culinary media brand that creates expert-based content about food, wine, mixology, and nutrition.
How Barack Beat Bibi
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, will be published by HarperCollins in June. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
An Open Letter to Republicans: The Bill Will Save Your Lives, Too
Michael Moore is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker and author. He directed and produced Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, and Sicko. He has also written seven books, most recently, Mike’s Election Guide 2008.
The Return of Big Government
Margaret Hoover is an American conservative feminist, political commentator, Republican strategist, and blogger. She is the great-granddaughter of former President Herbert Hoover. Most recently, she has worked as Deputy Finance Director to Rudy Giuliani’s Presidential Exploratory Committee. She is a frequent contributor to Fox News's O'Reilly Factor.
Prepared for Failure
Reihan Salam is a policy advisor at e21 and a fellow at the New America Foundation.
