BILL CLINTON, ACTIVIST. You don’t need to earn earn hundreds of thousands of dollars per speaking engagement to influence hearts and minds! You just need to read Giving: How Each Of Us Can Change The World, a new book by Clinton due in September and based on his inspirational speeches.

In other Bill news, the former president says his preferred title come January 2009 would be “First Laddie.”

–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.