ELLISON. To follow up on Tom‘s flagging of the wonderful Keith Ellison/Jefferson‘s Koran story, it’s worth plugging this month-old TAP Online piece profiling the new congressman. It does a good job conveying the guy’s overall hard-charging liberalism and the sense that he’ll be a freshman to watch.

–Sam Rosenfeld

Sam Rosenfeld, a former web editor for the Prospect, is visiting assistant professor of government at Wesleyan University, beginning in September.