As he bids the Senate a fond farewell, the convicted felon is toasted by grateful senators. By Benjamin Sarlin.
Unpopular, rejected, and ignored, Bush is counting the days before he can hand over the presidency to Obama. But with the financial crisis raging, he can't just ignore it—or can he?
Rapper Jim Jones talks to The Daily Beast’s Touré about how the new president-elect inspired him to clean up the language in his music.
This Christmas season, '60s counterculture makes a comeback in an unexpected place—Barneys' window displays. By Renata Espinosa.
Western intelligence has been tracking the flow of ransom money—and the trail leads to Dubai. By Gerald Posner.
Unpopular, rejected, and ignored, Bush is counting the days until January 20—but there's still important business to be done.
Western intelligence is tracking the ransom money—and the trail leads to Dubai. By Gerald Posner.
Tina Brown is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast. She is the author of the 2007 New York Times best seller The Diana Chronicles. Brown is the former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Talk magazines and host of CNBC's Topic A with Tina Brown. She has written for numerous publications, including The Times of London, The Spectator, and The Washington Post.
Christopher Buckley’s books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. His journalism, satire, and criticism has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and Esquire. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and the founder and editor-in-chief of Forbes FYI.
Touré is the host of BET’s The Black Carpet and the host of Treasure HD’s I’ll Try Anything Once. He is the author of Never Drank the Kool-Aid, Soul City, and The Portable Promised Land. He was a Contributing Editor at Rolling Stone, was CNN’s first Pop Culture Correspondent, and was the host of MTV2's Spoke N Heard. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker and the New York Times.
Max Blumenthal is a senior writer for The Daily Beast and writing fellow at The Nation Institute, whose book, Republican Gomorrah (Basic/Nation Books), is forthcoming in Spring 2009. Contact him at maxblumenthal3000@yahoo.com.
Laura Bennett was trained as an architect but has since established her career as a fashion designer by becoming a finalist on Season 3 of the Bravo hit television series Project Runway. Bennett lives amid complete chaos in New York City with her husband and six children, Cleo, 20, Peik, 13, Truman, 10, Pierson, 6, Larson, 5, and Finn, 2.
Tucker Carlson is MSNBC’s Senior Campaign Correspondent. Carlson joined MSNBC in February 2005 from CNN, hosting The Situation with Tucker Carlson and Tucker.
Stanley Crouch's culture pieces have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, Vogue, Downbeat, The New Yorker and more. He has served as Artistic Consultant for jazz programming at Lincoln Center since 1987, and is a founder Jazz At Lincoln Center. In June 2006 his first major collection of jazz criticism, Considering Genius: Jazz Writings was published. He is presently completing a book about the Barack Obama presidential campaign.
Wonkette emerita, political junkie, self-hating journalist, and author of Dog Days. She has worked for Time, Mother Jones, Suck, and most recently, Radar. Follow her on Twitter.
Michael Kinsley is a columnist for Time magazine. He was founding editor of Slate. He has been editor of The New Republic and Harper's, editorial and opinion editor of the Los Angeles Times, American editor of The Economist, and managing editor of the Washington Monthly. He has written for numerous publications including The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, and Condé Nast Traveler. For six years he was co-host of CNN’s Crossfire.
Robert Scheer’s recent book, The Pornography of Power, stands in a tradition of what I would call “deep thought” about patterns of our Pentagon spe...
Oliver Stone is a film director and screenwriter. His latest movie W starring Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks, and James Cromlin came out October 17, 2008. Stone made his directorial debut with Seizure and wrote screenplays for several films marked by their rapid pace and violence, including Midnight Express. He wrote and directed Platoon, drawing on his Vietnam experience; it was followed by movies such as Wall Street, Born on the Fourth of July, JFK, Natural Born Killers, and Nixon.
I would like to continually call for people to keep their eye on the ball on the upcoming International Tribunal into Rafik Hariri's assassination....
Raghida Dergham is Columnist and Senior Diplomatic Correspondent for the London-based Al Hayat, the leading independent Arabic daily, since 1989. She writes a regular weekly strategic column on International Political Affairs. Ms. Dergham is also a Political Analyst for NBC, MSNBC and the Arab satellite LBC. She is a Contributing Editor for LA Times Syndicate Global Viewpoint and has contributed to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The International Herald Tribune and Newsweek Magazine.
