Over at Salon, Ed Kilgore reads my profile of Janet Napolitano and uses it to argue that she should be seriously considered as V.P. I agree. Just one quibble: Ed writes, “Goldstein suggests that Napolitano’s great ambition in life is to become Attorney General of the United States.” Actually, I think Napolitano aspires to be President. Some of her associates joke that her ambitions truly know no limit. But I think AG is the more realistic goal for her and she knows it — at least for now.

—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.