Washington Editor for the National Journal
Ben Pershing is Washington editor of National Journal, overseeing White House and congressional coverage. Before joining National Journal in 2014, he was a reporter at the Washington Post for six years, covering Congress as well as campaigns in D.C., Maryland and Virginia. Prior to that, Pershing was at Roll Call for 10 years as a reporter and editor. He is a Los Angeles native and a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.
Congressional Action Elsewhere The immigration debate has eclipsed the fact that some important legislation DID pass this week. Things like Veterans Affairs reform and a new highway transportation bill managed to make it out of the House. So is it unfair to call this Congress a “do-nothing” Congress?
Spike Lee: "BlacKkKlansman’’ Director Spike Lee talks racial injustice and Jordan Peele in "BlacKkKlansman."
Storage Wars This is Rob Long and on today’s Martini Shot I clean things out for the new year. Digitally, I mean, Clips and ideas and files from an extremely cluttered Dropbox, iCloud, and Evernote.
A radical act of rezoning; UK prepares for Brexit Planners are calling Minneapolis the most radical city in America, after a vote to allow duplexes and triplexes to be built on lots previously zoned for only single-family homes. What are the chances something like this could happen in LA?