What’s so special about Beto?
O'Rourke's whole campaign against Ted Cruz in Texas is about subverting the stereotypes that have polarized America.
I'm an economics editor at Quartz. I was previously at the Wall Street Journal, where I covered everything from the economy to natural disasters to Texas quirks such as suburban feral pigs. I spent last year as a Nieman fellow at Harvard, where I studied the backlash against globalization and how the media can promote a more fruitful public debate on such complex, polarizing issues.