After a long lunch break, Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker are now making opening statements for the second time today, this time to the Foreign Relations Committee. The charts are back! I’ll be back with more when the Senators start speaking.

—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.