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Everything Is Jake at SLATE

SLATE is happy to announce that Jacob Weisberg will join our staff later this month as chief political correspondent. His first assignment will be covering the brawls of the fall campaign.

Weisberg has written for nearly every political and cultural publication of note--the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Esquire, the Washington Monthly, and the National Interest, to name just a few. He comes to SLATE from New York magazine, where he served as a contributing editor for the last two years and wrote "The National Interest" column. Between 1989 and 1994, he worked at the New Republic as an editor and writer.

A self-described liberal, Weisberg has major quarrels with liberalism as it is practiced today. In fact, he's written an entire book about those quarrels, In Defense of Government: The Fall and Rise of Public Trust (Scribner). Although Weisberg believes in an activist government that addresses social problems, he argues that liberals (as well as conservatives) have undermined public faith in government by overpromising what it can do.

Jake will be writing a weekly column for SLATE as well as features on politics and policy.

The Money's on Clinton

With the pundits pronouncing Bob Dole "dead meat," the " Horse Race" will be paying more attention in coming weeks to the congressional mounts still racing. The polls show that Democrats have a fair shot at retaking the House, and even the Senate, and some members of Congress are complaining that Bill Clinton is hedging his bets. The president, they suspect, may see his second term as easier with a Republican Congress as a foil. Moreover, although Clinton's campaign coffers are already overflowing, most of his fund raising continues to be on his own behalf, prompting speculation that, unsatisfied with a merely solid win, the president is determined to buy a landslide.