Hi folks, so sorry for the long radio silence, but I’ll make it up to you soon: Epolitics.com has plenty of articles just bursting to get out, and I can’t wait for them to see the light. Last week New Mexico and Texas, this week Ukraine...
Greetings from Netroots Nation! I’m in Atlanta with hundreds of my favorite folks on the Left, learning and chatting and learning and chatting (right now I’m in a session on the future of digital organizing run by Beth Becker and John...
After a long post-election slumber, Epolitics.com is back! Let’s get back in the fray with a post from Beth Becker, in which she peers into a crystal ball and reports from The Future. Check out her author page for past years’ predictions...
Yesterday we looked at Donald Trump’s sophisticated Facebook infrastructure, which included targeted “dark posts” and an impressive program to recruit supporters and test content on a massive scale (175,000 variants in one day!)...
New Epolitics.com contributor Dr. Jeff Swift is the author of “Digital Community Organizing: Why Political Power Must be Shared, Not Stored”, which outlines practical strategies for using digital media to build powerful networks. The...
If you can pull yourself away from desperately refreshing political news websites today, head over to Campaigns and Elections for a longer view of our political landscape. In this month’s Technology Bytes, we step back and think about the...
I wrote this in June, right after Brexit passed. Reposted now, five days before Election Day, with foreboding. Brexit! In our latest sign of populist political dissatisfaction, the British chose last night to leave the European Union. Voters in...
Was anyone truly surprised to learn that Donald Trump bragged about forcing himself on women in the “Access Hollywood” video released Friday? If you were, you haven’t been paying attention — from Meghyn Kelly to Miss Piggy...
Did you notice a little something extra at this year’s political conventions? I’ll give you a hint: some new players were involved, and they weren’t on the stage. Or rather, they weren’t on the stage in the room, but they...
Brexit! In our latest sign of populist political dissatisfaction, the British chose last night to leave the European Union. Voters in declining industrial cities left behind by the global economy provided the decisive margin, which ought to give...