Jacob Weisberg is editor of Slate, previous chief political correspondent and the originator of its Strange Bedfellow and Ballot Box columns. Before joining Slate, he wrote about politics for the New Republic Newsweek New York Magazine Vanity Fair, and the New York Times Magazine. He is the co-author of In an Uncertain World (Random House, c2003)and the author of In Defense of Government (Scribner, 1996), the e-book The Road to Chadville (Slate, 2000), and the Bushisms series.