• Tibet’s Star Activist Warns Obama

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    As the president prepares to meet with the Dalai Lama, controversial Tibetan activist Tenzin Tsundue talks about why Obama must stay strong with China, Google's shameful history of censorship, and his time in a prison camp. "Here is an opportunity...
  • Wole Soyinka’s British Problem

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    As religious violence deepens in his home country, Nobel laureate and Nigerian political activist Wole Soyinka shares his unbridled thoughts on Islamic terrorism and why England is a "cesspit" with The Daily Beast's Tunku Varadarajan. Seated under the...
  • A Post-Rhetorical Obama

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    Instead of giving ground after a shock defeat in Massachusetts, Obama showed style and candor in his State of the Union speech-even if hectoring the Supreme Court justices was unseemly. One was tempted to say before the State of the Union address that...