Turns out that Esquire‘s August 2007 cover featuring John Edwards was its worst seller of the year. Angelina Jolie, on the other hand, flew off the newsstands. You know, Esquire readers may not be all that interested in politics, but at least Esquire has attempted to cover the biggest election of our generation. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I haven’t seen the women’s magazines featuring the presidential candidates on their covers. (Though Hillary Clinton did decline to appear in Vogue for fear she’d seem frivolous.)

—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.