Team Obama likes to cite Warren's work on AIDS in Africa to combat criticism about the controversial pastor. But how does burning condoms in the name of Jesus save lives? By Max Blumenthal.
CNN's Sanjay Gupta as surgeon general? He's not just a doctor, he plays one on TV. The Daily Beast reveals Obama's other potential choices. Up next—Jeffrey Toobin at Justice?
The critics grumbling that Panetta isn't qualified to head the CIA are missing the point: Only an outsider can save Langley. By Leslie H. Gelb.
The paper of record refuses to call them terrorists, extols the group's humanitarian efforts, and whitewashes its behavior during the now-broken cease-fire. By Steve Emerson.
Alexandra Penney—who lost her life savings to Bernie Madoff—takes a road trip to Florida. Along the way, she confronts a new world of budget motels, hocking her jewelry, and Popeye's Chicken.
How does burning condoms in the name of Jesus save lives? By Max Blumenthal.
CNN's Sanjay Gupta as surgeon general? He's not just a doctor, he plays one on TV. The Daily Beast reveals Obama's other potential choices.
The critics grumbling that Leon Panetta isn't qualified to head the CIA are missing the point: Only an outsider can save Langley. By Leslie H. Gelb.
The paper of record refuses to call them terrorists, extols the groups' humanitarian efforts, and whitewashes its behavior during the now-broken ceasefire. By Steve Emerson.
Alexandra Penney—who lost her life savings to Bernie Madoff—takes a road trip to Florida. Along the way, she confronts a new world of budget motels, hocking her jewelry, and Popeye's Chicken.
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.
As vice chairman of Public Strategies and president of Maverick Media, Mark McKinnon has helped meet strategic challenges for candidates, causes, and individuals, including George W. Bush, John McCain, Governor Ann Richards, Charlie Wilson, Lance Armstrong, and Bono. McKinnon is co-chair of Arts & Labs, a collaboration between technology and creative communities that have embraced today’s rich internet environment to deliver innovative and creative digital products to consumers.
Charles Gasparino appears as a daily member of CNBC's ensemble. Gasparino, in his role as on-air Editor, provides reports based on his reporting throughout the day and has broken some of the biggest stories affecting the financial markets in recent months. He is also a columnist for Trader Monthly Magazine, and a freelance writer for the New York Post, Forbes and other publications.
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 a senior political correspondent at MSNBC. He joined the network 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.
Adopt a chimpanzee. These are chimps, now "retired," who've given much of their lives to medical research benefiting us. They now have a chance to ...
Ron Reagan is host of The Ron Reagan Show on Air America. Until 2007, he had a radio show on Seattle KIRO AM. He is a frequent guest on Larry King Live. In 2005 he co-hosted MSNBC’s Connected: Coast to Coast. He hosted a few years of dog shows for Discovery’s Animal Planet and was a special correspondent for ABC News 20/20. Reagan is an advocate of stem cell research. He has been a contributor to Newsweek, The New Yorker, Playboy, The Los Angeles Times, Esquire and Interview.
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Molly Jong-Fast is the author of the weirdly popular cult novel Normal Girl and Girl Maladjusted. She has written for The New York Times, The Times of London, Cosmo, W magazine, The New York Observer, Mademoiselle, Marie Claire, British Elle, and many other newspapers and magazines. She is currently working on her third book, a novel called THE SOCIAL CLIMBER'S HANDBOOK. She is addicted to needlepoint. And since you are wondering, yes, her mother is Erica Jong, and yes, she is afraid to fly.
