Dangers Come After Year One
Dr. Larry J. Sabato is the university professor of politics at the University of Virginia and director of the Center for Politics, founded at UVA in 1998 to improve civic education and the political process. Sabato's political analysis can be found at the Crystal Ball. The author of more than 20 books, his most recent is The Year of Obama: How Barack Obama Won the White House.
History has taught us not to take presidential first years too seriously: No one foresaw how Vietnam would doom LBJ or Watergate would unhorse Nixon.
Behind the Swine Flu Emergency
Kent Sepkowitz is an infectious disease specialist in New York City. He has contributed to The New York Times, Slate, and, oh-so-briefly, O Magazine. He also writes academic medical articles that are at times pretty tough sledding.
By declaring H1N1 a national emergency, Obama's made it political-which is a shame, says infectious disease specialist Kent Sepkowitz. What we should really be talking about is how to get vaccinated for an even more deadly pandemic.
Liberals, Lay Off Obama
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.
He's on his way to an historic health-care win. The stimulus was huge. The market's back. The left should stop complaining the president hasn't accomplished anything.
A Short History of Health-Care Disasters
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With Tuesday's vote in the Senate Finance Committee, President Obama's push for health-care reform came closer to final passage than any president's in history. And it's quite a history. The Daily Beast looks at Obama's predecessors, from Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton, and how close they got to the finish line.
With Friends Like These
Martin Sieff is the Chief Global Analyst at The Globalist. He was State Department correspondent for the Washington Times and has received three Pulitzer Prize nominations for international reporting.
As Obama decides his next move in Afghanistan, he's getting the greatest pushback from some of the leading foreign-affairs lights in the Democratic Party.
Bury the Vietnam Analogy
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.
Exactly eight years after Bush sent troops to Afghanistan, critics are once again calling it Obama's Vietnam. In his debut column, The Daily Beast's senior political writer Peter Beinart on why there's no real comparison.
Albright's Pin Diplomacy
Rebecca Dana is a culture correspondent for The Daily Beast. A former editor and reporter for the Wall Street Journal, she has also written for the New York Times, the New York Observer, Rolling Stone and Slate, among other publications.
The former secretary of State, who once telegraphed diplomatic messages by wearing carefully selected pins, talks to Rebecca Dana about her new book on her extraordinary pin collection, Sarah Palin's pins, and more.
"Naturally, not every diplomatic encounter demands a sunny attitude. If I wanted to deliver a sharp message, I often wore a bee. Muhammad Ali used ...
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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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.
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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