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.
A Last Word on the Beer Summit
As vice chairman of Public Strategies and president of Maverick Media, Mark McKinnon has helped meet strategic challenges for candidates, corporations and causes, 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.
Former Bush and McCain strategist Mark McKinnon says Obama's smart calculation recalls a surprising focus group finding from 2000: Voters just want to have a beer with their president.
Palin vs. Biden 2016
As vice chairman of Public Strategies and president of Maverick Media, Mark McKinnon has helped meet strategic challenges for candidates, corporations and causes, 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.
In the third of a series on the 2012 landscape, former Bush and McCain strategist Mark McKinnon says Palin is getting stronger by the day-and will be ready to take on the Obama agenda (or his vice president) in three years or seven.
Bush Comes Out of Hiding
Matthew Yglesias is a Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. He is the author of Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats.
Last night, George W. Bush gave his first speech since the torture flap exploded. The GOP still eschews the ex-president on a personal level but, says Matthew Yglesias, it's now fully embracing his legacy.
Why Obama’s Smart to Tackle Immigration Now
As vice chairman of Public Strategies and president of Maverick Media, Mark McKinnon has helped meet strategic challenges for candidates, corporations and causes, 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.
Here goes President Obama into the immigration briar patch.
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.
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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.
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