A friend in South Africa told me that after Obama was elected, people poured into the streets and danced the toi-toi for twenty-seven hours. I read in the Times (South Africa) that the following weekend, more than a million and a half ...
Patricia J. Williams is the author of The Alchemy of Race and Rights; The Rooster's Egg; and Seeing a ColorBlind Future: The Paradox of Race. She is a also a columnist for The Nation.
Voting Matters!! Go Vote! Now I need to scream at the top of my voice and tell as many people as I can! Or I could use Neighbor to Neighbor to make calls to people across the country from the convenience of my home/office/cafe and re...
Thomas Gensemer is a Managing Partner in Blue State Digital's Washington, DC headquarters. He joined BSD in 2005 with a background in venture capital, strategy consulting, product marketing and technology startup management. Prior to BSD, Gensemer was the director of Internet strategy for America Coming Together. He led online communications for General Wesley Clark's 2004 Presidential campaign.
Cool Hand Barack
Brad Gooch is a professor of english at William Paterson University in New Jersey. His latest book is Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor
Obama proved to be positively George Bushian in his ability to stick relentlessly to message-the only thing that never changed was "change" itself.
What a Powerful World This Will Be
Zane is the New York Times Bestselling author of ten titles including: Dear G Spot: Straight Talk About Sex and Love, Afterburn, Gettin’ Buck Wild: The Sex Chronicles 2, Addicted, and The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth. Zane is the Publisher of Strebor Books International. She wrote and produced her first film Addicted, being released Spring 2009. Zane will launch her body product line in the fall of 2008 followed by her clothing and adult toy lines in the spring of 2009.
Americans have decided that being different is a blessing, not a curse.
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.
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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