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The Daily Beast is a news website published by Tina Brown, former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. About one-third of its content is original, while the rest is aggregated links to articles written by other news outlets.[1] The Daily Beast was launched October 6, 2008, and is owned by IAC. The name of the site is derived from that of the fictional newspaper in Evelyn Waugh's novel Scoop.[2] More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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America's Next Unwinnable War
America’s unwise, unwarranted, and sadly unwinnable war in Afghanistan—hastily initiated and then abandoned for Iraq by President Barack Obama’s ideologically blinded ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Cheney Tells Obama To Stop 'Dithering'
Former Vice President Dick Cheney accused President Barack Obama of "dithering" in failing to make a decision about escalating troops in Afghanistan. "Make no mistake, signals ...Posted by Cynthia Gilbert -
Prosecutors Fumble Wall Street Probes
It’s hard to imagine that for all the misinformation spread from the senior ranks of Wall Street about the alleged health of the financial business during the run-up to last ...via Tom Friedman -
Bogging Down in Kabul
Rather than a limited mission to fight al Qaeda and support the existing Afghan government, we seem increasingly drawn into a hazily defined effort to reconstruct Afghan ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Obama's Euthanasia Mistake
This is the Big Brother nightmare of oppressive government that the shrewd propagandists on the right are always blathering on about. Except that this time, they could not be ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Ensign's Sex-Scandal Enabler?
Senator Tom Coburn knew of John Ensign’s affair 16 months ago—and concealed it from the public. But what, Max Blumenthal asks, did the conservative moral crusader tell his ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Obama's First Scandal
Lost in the flood of Iran-related coverage this week has been the stirrings of what might be President Obama's first scandal since taking office.Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Memo to Obama: Leave Egypt
Obama should have chosen Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, a moderate, pluralistic, wildly successful democratic country whose citizens just last month ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
The GOP's Supreme Problem
Provided we don't discover conclusive evidence that Sonia Sotomayor is a Soviet sleeper agent dedicated to the violent overthrow of America's system of constitutional ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
The Future of The New Republic
Imagine someone came to you with an offer to buy a property with a long and storied history.... [O]wning this property will probably cost you seven figures a year.... [T]he ...Posted by Dan Kennedy
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Karzai’s Paranoid World
(Blog Post) When Hamid Karzai is re-inaugurated as president today after one of the world’s dodgiest elections, everyone from Washington to Whitehall will be watching for some sign that ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
The GOP Surge Isn't Obama's Fault
(Blog Post) The post-presidential election correction has officially kicked in. Barack Obama cannot translate his popularity to other Democrats when he’s not on the ballot.Posted by Jo Bobenhouse Smith -
It's Time For Us To Go
(Blog Post) Get out of Afghanistan now, Mr. President. And here's why...If you have not seen Karen DeYoung’s Oct 27 story, “U.S. Official Resigns Over Afghan War”, you owe it to ...Posted by Cynthia Gilbert -
How Fox News Outsmarted the White House
What’s worse than stupid about the conspiracy theory that Fox News is a pachyderm is that it is wrong. Fox News has nothing to do with the Republican Party or its dreary ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
An Autism Epidemic? - Page 1
The statistics appear to tell an alarming story: 1 of every 100 American children has an autism spectrum disorder, according to newly released results from two federally ...Posted by Cynthia Gilbert -
Bill's Back in Business
Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas: Your email has been sent. Alex Wong / AP Photo Mocking the predictions that he’d be sidelined or prove an ...Posted by Barry Grossheim -
Can Yahoo Save the News?
(Blog Post) As newspapers continue to struggle, traditional news-aggregation sites like AOL and Yahoo are planning to produce more original content. Are they the future of journalism?via Publish2 -
What Happened to the Real Lou?
Just how did a respected financial-news guru turn into an immigrant-hating, birther-supporting zealot? The Daily Beast’s Lloyd Grove reports. Plus CNN's former CEO on "good ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
What I Saw at the Beer Summit
The Daily Beast’s Elizabeth Gates joined her father, Skip, Sgt. Crowley, and the president to raise a beer and bury the hatchet. An inside report from the peace talksPosted by Juliet Sallette -
The Man Who Knew Cheney's Secret
Asked about the officials quoted in the Times' report who claimed that Cheney's assassination ring never became operational, Hersh offered a skeptical response. "I said ...Posted by Dwight Rousu
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