Co-host of Showtime's The Circus, Co-managing Editor at Bloomberg Politics and author of Game Change: Obama and The Clintons, McCain and Palin and the Race of a Lifetime; former National Affairs Editor for New York magazine ; former reporter for the Economist and New Yorker; former National Affairs Editor for Wired magazine
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