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Daniel Luzer

news editor

Daniel Luzer -- News Editor. Daniel previously worked as the Web editor at the Washington Monthly and as an editorial fellow at Mother Jones. His work has appeared at Mother Jones, Salon, Pacific Standard, the Washington Monthly and Columbia Journalism Review.

(It's pronounced Loot-zer.)

Total amount spent by Randolph–Macon College Economics Professor David Brat by May 21 in his successful campaign to defeat House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. The Cantor campaign, in contrast, spent $168,000 on steakhouses alone.
Approximate cost of pushing back the start time for Montgomery County, Md., schools, from 7:25 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. The superintendent proposed the change so students could get more sleep but recently gave up on the plan "after receiving the final cost estimates."
Gov. Deval Patrick airs a $20m plan to combat opioid use and coordinate with the five other New England governors.
Gov. Peter Shumlin signs minimum wage increase law that phases in increases over the next four years.
Ratio of seriously mentally ill people in U.S. state prisons and jails to those in state psychiatric hospitals.
74
Number of school shootings that have occurred in America since the 2012 tragedy in Newtown, Conn.
This is a victory for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, but Republicans say the move will trigger property tax hikes in the city.
Gabriel Prokofiev, on the "Baby Got Back" arrangement he composed for the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, which performed the 90s hit with Sir Mix-A-Lot.
Instead of isolated corporate campuses like Silicon Valley, some places are trying to promote "innovation districts" to bring industry back. Can it work?