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Eight in Ten Americans are Concerned About Partisanship. Here’s How ‘The Unum Test’ Can Reunite America – Time Magazine
January 1, 2023
Our Murrow Moment
January 31, 2016
George Clooney: A 21st-Century Statesman – Newsweek
February 20, 2011
What News Needs to Do Now
October 2, 2016
The Resilient City – from Empire City: New York Through the Centuries
September 11, 2002
The Ballad of Lester Maddox
March 31, 2015
In Defense of U2 and The War on Apathy
December 31, 2017
David McCullough on Reading History as Resistance
May 17, 2017
What Macron Can Teach America: It’s Time for Center-Left and Center-Right to Unite
June 23, 2017
How Corporate Citizens Can Stop Fake News and Hate News—and Help Save Quality Journalism in the Process
May 1, 2017
Why We Stand With Charlie Hebdo – And You Should Too – The Daily Beast
January 8, 2015
How The Daily Beast Will Stand Up to President Donald Trump
November 9, 2016
The GOP’s Crump Cancer
February 3, 2016
Fidel Castro Finally Dies, But His Apologists Live On
November 26, 2016
What George Washington Knew About Vladimir Putin’s Political Hack – The Daily Beast
July 26, 2016
George Washington’s ‘Warning From a Parting Friend’
January 10, 2017
Scenes From Cleveland’s Republican Trumpocalypse
July 21, 2016
Exclusive: Congressional Ethics Probe Adds to Michele Bachmann’s Political Woes – The Daily Beast
March 25, 2013
How the Party of Lincoln was Left Behind on Civil Rights – Real Clear Politics
June 20, 2008
The Economist Interview: Six questions for John Avlon
May 16, 2010
Jim Harrison Can Make You a Better Animal – The Daily Beast
September 23, 2010
Market Leninism vs. the West – The Daily Beast
March 14, 2014
Ed Brooke: The Senate’s Civil Rights Pioneer and Prophet of a Post-Racial America – The Daily Beast
January 4, 2015
The Westboro Defectors Speak: Phelps Granddaughters Embrace Tolerance – The Daily Beast
March 8, 2013
Jimmy Breslin, the Greatest Deadline Artist – The Daily Beast
March 31, 2018
Forty-Five Foiled Terror Plots Since 9/11 – The Daily Beast
September 8, 2011
American Way: What We Didn’t Learn After Newtown – The Telegraph
December 7, 2013
Paranoia on Patriots’ Day – The Daily Beast
April 20, 2010
What Independent Voters Want – The Wall Street Journal
October 20, 2010
Donald Trump Is Running for Richard Nixon’s Third Term
February 15, 2016
Michael Hastings, R.I.P. – The Daily Beast
June 19, 2013
The MLK Whitewash
January 25, 2017
A Brief History of Wingnuts in America; From George Washington to Woodstock – The Daily Beast
August 17, 2014
Hell Week in Boston Shows How 9/11 Taught Resilience – The Telegraph
April 21, 2013
GOP’s Surprising Edge on diversity – CNN.com
January 18, 2013
Vaclav Havel’s Heroic Politics of Truth and Responsibility – The Daily Beast
December 20, 2011
How to Cure U.S. Electoral Dysfunction
January 25, 2017
The Obama Haters Book Club: The Canon Swells – The Daily Beast
October 26, 2012
Pope Francis’s Lessons for the GOP – The Daily Beast
July 28, 2013
Palin’s SarahPAC Embarrassment: Consultants Are Cashing In – The Daily Beast
March 29, 2013
Hey Ted Nugent: You’re No Rosa Parks – The Daily Beast
February 28, 2013
Democracy in Name Only – City Journal
October 13, 2009
The Dark Money Shuffle – The Daily Beast
September 19, 2012
A ‘New York Values’ Walking Tour for Ted Cruz
January 16, 2016
Church Massacre Response Reveals the True Spirit of Charleston
June 23, 2015
Why ‘The Newsroom’ Matters – CNN
July 22, 2014
Soundtrack to Economic Anxiety – Politico
September 21, 2008
Shutdown Crisis: We Need a Hostage Negotiator
October 6, 2013
Did Rick Santorum Win the Iowa Caucuses, Not Mitt Romney? – The Daily Beast
January 12, 2012
The Case for Crazy: What the GOP Would Learn by Picking Rick Santorum – The Daily Beast
March 16, 2012
From Wall Street to the Street: A Cabdriver’s Tale – CNN.com
December 31, 2012
Ode to the Independent Bookstore – The Daily Beast
October 11, 2011
Sue City – City Journal
July 15, 2009
Fulton Fish Mart’s Poets And Ghosts – NY Sun
July 15, 2005
Moe Tucker Interview: Velvet Underground Drummer Embraces Tea Party
October 30, 2010
U2 Showed the Relevance of Rock Music – NY Sun
September 17, 2002
Wingnuts Excerpt-Bush Derangement Syndrome
April 1, 2010
Tsunami of Sleaze – NY Post
January 26, 2009
The Supreme Court’s Election Reform Ruling Is a Big F-ing Deal
June 30, 2015
Confronting George Clooney’s Critics on South Sudan
October 7, 2014
The Mount Rushmore Fight Club: A History of Hating Presidents, from Washington to Obama
February 17, 2014
The Gonzo Life of Mayor McCrack – The Daily Beast
November 9, 2013
George H.W. Bush, Our Preppiest Ex-President, Honored at White House
July 16, 2013
The Oscar for Best Supporting Actor Should Go to Mike Pence
March 4, 2018
Scaife v. Clinton and the Dangers of Demonization – The Daily Beast
July 7, 2014
Donald Trump’s ‘American Carnage’ Inaugural
January 10, 2017
