The Daily Beast checks out the hot campaigns around the country: the GOP's likely romp in Virginia, a crucial gay-marriage vote in Maine, and an historic moment in Atlanta.
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.
I highly recommend The Political Brain:The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation, by Drew Westen. As a psychiatrist who is interested in public education, I think the book provides tremendous insight inot the psychological e...
Gail Saltz is associate professor of psychiatry at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, a psychoanalyst with the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. and a mental-health contributor for NBC's Today show. She is author of Anatomy of a Secret Life: The Psychology of Living a Lie.
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.
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.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
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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.
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.
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