I just asked, “Can you ever imagine an American president divorcing in office?” A friend writes to say, “Yes! Rudy Giuliani!”

So true. Both are also former mayors with cosmopolitan personal lives, race-baiting tendencies, and hawkish foreign policy instincts.

—Dana Goldstein

Dana Goldstein, a former associate editor and writer at the Prospect, comes from a family of public-school educators. She received the Spencer Fellowship in Education Journalism, a Schwarz Fellowship at the New America Foundation, and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellowship at the Nation Institute. Her journalism is regularly featured in Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Beast, and other publications, and she is a staff writer at the Marshall Project.