PERLS BEFORE SWINE. Author Rick Perlstein has signed on to do a new blog on the conservative movement, The Big Con, for the Campaign for America’s Future, where he’s now a senior fellow. Check it out.

—Garance Franke-Ruta

Garance Franke-Ruta is a former senior editor at the Prospect. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She was a 2006 recipient of a fellowship at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University.