This is the place on the site where I answer those often asked questions: "Who do you think you are?" or "Just where do you get off…?"

You can get the official version of my bio here.

For more than seven years, I've written on national politics for the New York Times Magazine. You can access most of my work on the 2004 and 2008 campaigns and other topics here. My work for the magazine was featured in both the 2005 and 2006 editions of "The Best American Political Writing."

I’m also the author of "The Argument: Inside the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics," published by the Penguin Press, which is now in paperback. The book, which took me several years to report and write, is an inside account of the new progressive movement in America and a