It’s hard to imagine how the Boston Globe could’ve picked a worse picture to accompany their profile of Max Baucus. He looks like a happy skeleton. But maybe the reporter was trying to get Baucus’s communications people back for taking this quote off the record:

“For 30 years, Max Baucus has only been influenced by one thing: What’s right for Montana, and what is right for the nation,” said a Baucus spokesperson. “Healthcare reform is the same.”

Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.