Darfur may not be in the public eye as it was when every liberal arts student donned a “Save Darfur” shirt, when world powers issued public condemnations, and “Rock for Darfur” performers raised tens of thousands in donations annually (there were 22 concerts in 2006 alone).
After Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul tweeted that he was taking a booster vaccination for measles, a senior editor at the Daily Beast replied “F— you” to the Republican.
The Zoroastrian ritual of placing bodies on top of towers to be picked apart by vultures was supposed to ensure the circle of life continued. It was also really gruesome.
Matt Drudge posts headlines long before the mainstream media have caught on and shines his traffic spotlight on stories he deems important. That, in turn, drives mainstream news coverage – or, in some cases, as with Obamacare, perhaps not. And that’s the point: the media need Drudge to point them in the right direction, apparently, but Drudge doesn’t need the media to make a story huge.
ISTANBUL—Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s decision last week to arrest the editor in chief of an opposition newspaper is the latest crack in this country’s image as a modern, Westernized country. But it’s not the only sign of an erosion of rights.
TURBAT, Pakistan—Something fell out of the sky near Arif Saleem’s home at 5:20 a.m. on Nov. 25, 2013. He scrambled outside to find a 25-foot-wide crater just beyond the mud wall surrounding his family compound. The strike was one of three, in quick succession, that morning in the village of Kulahu, in Pakistani Baluchistan, 45 miles east of the Iran border. One of the blasts damaged the local mosque. Pages from the Quran fluttered in the air before landing gently on the rubble.
“We wanted to have what the civilized nations do,” Col. Nahida Ahmed Rashid, the head of her brigade of the Kurdish YPJ, or female Peshmerga forces, tells the Daily Beast’s Susannah George. Like their male counterparts, the female Peshmerga fighting the
Maajid Nawaz, a Daily Beast contributor, and former Islamic radical, argued that the terrorist attack in Sydney was not a “lone wolf” attack on Monday’s “AC360” on CNN. “It is a mistake. I would use the term ‘self-starter’…it doesn’t describe
On Sunday’s “MediaBuzz” on the Fox News Channel, Daily Beast columnist Ana Marie Cox argued that recent reporting that calls details of a claimed sexual assault in Lena Dunham’s recent memoir “Not That Kind of Girl” into question “tarnishes” Dunham’s credibility.
This article originally appeared in the Daily Beast. Nigeria is facing a rise in female teenage suicide bombers at the service of terror group Boko Haram. Residents of northern Nigeria are more on edge than ever. On top of a
This article was originally posted by the Daily Beast. Just three years ago, Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge were the toast of the liberal establishment. The Facebook co-founder and his politically ambitious husband embodied all the attributes of a bona
Following Mary Landrieu’s (D-LA) resounding loss to Senator-elect Bill Cassidy (R-LA) on December 6, the Daily Beast threw in the towel on the South, which it describes as a post-Democrat region lacking “tolerance, compassion, [and] civil decency.” In short, the
This story originally appeared at The Daily Beast: Nazi Alois Brunner’s confirmed death in Damascus reveals an uncomfortable truth: Egypt and Syria have long ties to Nazi Germany and long provided sanctuary to fugitive war criminals. When most of us
Holocaust survivor-turned-presidential tailor Martin Greenfield once mistook then-Clinton Senior Adviser GeorgeStephanopoulos for a small boy when fitting Clinton for a made-to-measure suit, according to a Daily Beast excerpt published on Friday. “What did I know? He looked like a little
The Daily Beast’s Eleanor Clift argued that Muslims in Europe feel “singled out” and seemed to assert that the rise of “anti-immigrant hatred” in Europe was as terrifying as the rise of radical Islam on Friday’s “McLaughlin Group.” During a
NEW YORK, Nov. 21 (UPI) — Game of Thrones actress Natalie Dormer said she wouldn’t mind seeing a little more male nudity in the HBO series for gender equality’s sake, of course. Dormer, who plays Margaery Tyrell in the series,
On November 16, The Daily Beast’s Joel Kotkin wrote a column in which he claimed the “disconnect” between “Obama Democrats” and reality is crushing Democrat Party chances in future elections, particularly midterms. Kotkin contends that this “disconnect” is largely seen
A new revelation involving Obamacare’s chief architect, MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber, threatens to infuriate the Supreme Court and imperil President Obama’s signature legislative achievement. Breitbart has discovered a March 28, 2012, transcript from The Daily Beast titled “Live Chat on
A new hospital in Rome has opened a program to help childless couples better understand fertility, using minimally invasive, natural approaches without drugs. Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski, president of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers, noted that
A Pulitzer prize winning reporter, formerly with the Washington Post, says the major media has mostly given the Obama administration a pass. In a story published yesterday at the Daily Beast, 2006 Pulitzer winning reporter Susan Schmidt agrees that this administration
This article originally appeared in The Daily Beast: No piece of cloth throughout history has sparked more controversy as the veil. Many Muslim women are forced to wear it daily. The hijab has a spectrum, of course, from its most
Maybe it’s the approach of Halloween, or an impending sense of defeat for pro-Obamacare Democrats like Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas. Whatever the reason, the Daily Beast’s Asawin Suebsaeng is trying–rather desperately–to scare voters by resurrecting a long-dead argument: that
In a last ditch effort to bring voters to the polls, Democrats are hoping to make the midterm elections about racism and Ferguson. Some African American activists are hoping that Ferguson will be the focus of this year’s election, claiming
On Oct. 11, The Daily Beast released an article entitled “The Resurrection of Kristen Stewart” in which Stewart commented on the alleged mistreatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba while promoting her newest film, Camp X-Ray. The following day, Breitbart News
If there were more hours in the day and not so many bad players in the media, Breitbart News consumers would read a lot more about Josh Rogin and Eli Lake, two superb national security/foreign policy reporters who are about
