A press release (below) from the

A press release (below) from the Clinton camp today treads the very familiar ground of Obama economic advisor Austan Goolsbee‘s meeting with Canadian officials. It implies that by keeping Goolsbee off a conference call on trade, the Obama team is failing to adequately respond to concerns about supposed flip-flopping on NAFTA.

In other Goolsbee news (typing that name just gives me a little thrill), I recently learned that while in college at Yale, Goolsbee was the debating partner of the fantabulous Dahlia Lithwick, Slate‘s legal expert and a new columnist at Newsweek. In 1990, Lithwick and Goolsbee were the runners up for the National Debate Team of the Year Award.

—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.