I’ve been wondering for a few weeks if, burnt by his early Dean-endorsement in 2004, Al Gore might wait for Hillary Clinton to put out an aggressive climate platform and then endorse her, betting that he should work toward a position of influence in the probable Democratic administration. After reading Kate‘s piece on Hillary’s global warming plan, particularly that she borrowed certain elements from Gore, I’m taking this idea more seriously than ever.

Thoughts?

—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.