Hannity's Gay Target
Michelle Goldberg is the author of The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World and Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. She is a senior correspondent for The American Prospect, and her work has appeared in The New Republic, The Nation, the Los Angeles Times, Glamour, and many other publications.
As Obama readies a major gay-rights speech, the right is tarring his safe schools czar with a homophobic slur. Michelle Goldberg on why the White House must stand by its man.
Beck's Show Weathers Blow
Benjamin Sarlin is a reporter for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.
Advertisers have deserted The Glenn Beck Show in droves, outraged by his race-baiting remarks. But the exodus won't slow the conservative juggernaut.
18 Outrageous Conservative Quotes
Max Blumenthal is a senior writer for The Daily Beast, writing fellow at The Nation Institute and author of Republican Gomorrah (Basic/Nation Books). Contact him at maxblumenthal3000@yahoo.com.
Republican Congressman Joe Wilson made a name for himself Wednesday night by shouting "You lie!" during President Obama's health-care speech to Congress, but he's hardly the first conservative to spark controversy with a crazy statement. In his new book, Republican Gomorrah, Daily Beast columnist Max Blumenthal presented a compendium of quotes from influential right-wingers.
Leave Van Jones Alone
Reihan Salam is a fellow at the New America Foundation and the co-author of Grand New Party.
What do the liberal Jones and conservative Virginia statehouse candidate Bob McDonnell have in common? Ideas-and that's costing them their careers.
After Fox's pit bull helped take down White House adviser Van Jones, who will he attack next? The Daily Beast breaks down the most endangered list.
September 6: 7 Best Moments from Sunday Talk
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Newt thinks Obama's school speech is "good for America," Howard Dean claims Van Jones was "brought down," and George Will takes on the neocons. That and more in our Sunday roundup.
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.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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.
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