Michelle Goldberg is a journalist based in New York. She is the author of The New York Times bestseller Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism and The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World, winner of the 2008 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award and the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize. Goldberg's work has appeared in Glamour, Rolling Stone, The Nation, New York magazine, The Guardian (UK) and The New Republic. Her third book, about the world-traveling adventuress, actress and yoga evangelist Indra Devi, will be published by Knopf in 2012.
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Peter Lauria is a business writer, previously a senior correspondent for The Daily Beast covering business, media, and entertainment, and before that a corporate media and business reporter for the New York Post covering music, movies, television, cable, and radio.
The media and sports billionaire and self-described "all-around troublemaker" opens up about the future of content, the state of basketball and why news may be delivered on a Netflix model.
Artist Will Cotton Talks Katy Perry
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Isabel Wilkinson is an assistant editor at The Daily Beast.
Artist Will Cotton painted Katy Perry's last album cover and has a new show of candy-coated portraits featuring the pop star. He talks to Isabel Wilkinson about their mouth-watering collaboration-and what's next.
Michael Lewis on the Economic Crash
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Bestselling author of The Big Short, Michael Lewis answers questions on the culture of Wall Street, Obama's economic policies, and how the characters in his book are doing.
3 Ways to Reinvent America
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Randall Lane is editor at large at The Daily Beast. The former editor in chief of Trader Monthly, Dealmaker and P.O.V. magazines, and the former Washington bureau chief of Forbes, he is the author of The Zeroes: My Misadventures in the Decade Wall Street Went Insane.
What will drive innovation in the next decade? The Daily Beast's Randall Lane brought together preeminent business thinkers John Kao, Paul Saffo, and Tim Brown for ideas-from "pro-sumers" to designing living organisms.
Jane McGonigal's Reality Is Broken and How Videogames Are Changing the World
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Josh Dzieza is an editorial assistant at The Daily Beast.
Superstar videogame designer Jane McGonigal talks to The Daily Beast about her new book, Reality Is Broken, and how games can make people happy-and help solve the world's problems.
Steven Tyler's Idol Reincarnation
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Peter Lauria is a business writer, previously a senior correspondent for The Daily Beast covering business, media, and entertainment, and before that a corporate media and business reporter for the New York Post covering music, movies, television, cable, and radio.
As the rock legend attempts to transform American Idol tomorrow, he tells The Daily Beast's Peter Lauria that the hit show will actually transform his career-and Aerosmith's future.
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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 associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, is now available from HarperCollins. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
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Allen Barra writes about sports for the Wall Street Journal and the Village Voice. He also writes about books for Salon.com, Bookforum, and the Washington Post. His latest book is Yogi Berra, Eternal Yankee.
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Jolie Hunt travels on her own dime for more than 50% of the year. Her recommendations are aimed at business travelers who are short on time but not on taste. She is the global head of public relations for Thomson Reuters, appointed April 2008. She lives between New York and London.
Libya Fights Protests With Deadly Force
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