Voters went “yes” on building a first-in-the-nation high-speed rail line between San Francisco and Los Angeles.

And “yes” on limiting animal cruelty by giving farm animals enough room to stand up, stretch their limbs, and turn around.

—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.