Throughout her career, journalist Asra Q. Nomani has never shied away from challenging conventional wisdom among Muslims when it comes to Islamist extremism and the threat of terrorism. In her latest article at the Daily Beast website, Nomani makes the
[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets111510.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed In today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the wild swing of commodities, a QE2 revolt from investors and economists,
From Politico: On the eve of Tina Brown’s The Daily Beast’s turning two years old, Brown took to the site’s pages Tuesday to announce some big news: Howard Kurtz is joining the Beast as Washington bureau chief. Funny, Kurtz was
Most of the time media bias is difficult to prove. Whatever the story might be, it’s not often possible to prove how the same material would have been handled if the party labels had been reversed. So the claim can
Back in 2008, Barack Obama and his media staff–David Axelrod, Anita Dunn and David Plouffe–had the press eating out of their hands. It was, to repeat a phrase, a slobbering love affair. Things have changed in 24 short months. Yesterday,
Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith in The Daily Beast: The case for government deficit spending was that idle unemployed labor and capital would be put to work to increase the output of goods and services. Hence, a dollar of government spending
Writing at Politico, Keach Hagey tries to sum up one possible lesson of Dave Weigel’s recent firing from the Washington Post. Hagey’s argument is that, in the new media environment, public disgrace may actually be good for your career. To
The Daily Beast: On Charlie Rose, Vice President Joe Biden lent strong support to Israel’s blockade of Gaza, saying they have “a right to know whether or not arms are being smuggled in.”
The public relations hit Hollywood took during their tone-deaf Rally ‘Round The Child Rapist Movement last September was pretty devastating for the entertainment industry as a whole. It was also probably the first time The Beautiful People had to confront
Big Government Contributor, Charlie Gasparino gives his take on the SEC charges against Goldman Sachs at the Daily Beast: John Paulson is an interesting guy: He was one of a handful of hedge-fund managers who bet the mortgage-bond market would
It’s time for your weekly dose of markets and politics with Coffee and Markets, featuring The New Ledger’s Francis Cianfrocca, a podcast brought to you by the fine folks at Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com and LibertyPundits.com, your new home for Conservative
Meghan McCain at the Daily Beast: “I asked my mother if she would come see [“Brothers”] with me, but she said she didn’t want to give any money to a movie in which the preview showed the soldier coming back
To which I respond to my unofficial biographer Conor Friedersdorf‘s Daily Beast criticism of your’s truly and bigger fish Andrew Sullivan’s two-thumbs-up to it: In the piece you link to and affirm in the Daily Beast, “The Right’s Lesser Press,”
To which I respond to my unofficial biographer Conor Friedersdorf‘s Daily Beast criticism of your’s truly and bigger fish Andrew Sullivan’s two-thumbs-up to it: In the piece you link to and affirm in the Daily Beast, “The Right’s Lesser Press,”
Polanski’s grounds for dismissal center around the former prosecutor inappropriately advising the judge about how to send Polanski back to prison. But the former prosecutor, David Wells, now tells Clark that “I lied” in the movie about advising the judge,
Richard Wolffe writes on The Daily Beast: “The president will reawaken his dormant grassroots network to push Sonia Sotomayor—a plan designed to divert attention away from his real summer agenda.” Also on part one of Tuesday’s show: Survivalism is surging.
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Daily Beast: Two U.S. intelligence officers confirm that Vice President Cheney’s office suggested waterboarding an Iraqi prisoner, a former intelligence official for Saddam Hussein, who was suspected to
Part pit bull, part Columbo whacked out on a pot of espresso, they don’t make investigative journalists like Mark Ebner anymore. And that’s good news if you’re a dirt bag, scum bag, douche bag or any sort of Hollywood low-level,
After years of suffering the downside of a career in an industry that is famously vicious and unforgiving, Mickey Rourke is now back near the top. Last night he won the Golden Globe for “best actor in a drama” in