Iowa, thank you for reminding us of a fundamental truth about political tech: test it before you need it. On edge since Election Day 2016, Democrats wanted the Iowa caucus to show us something, SOMETHING! definitive about how we will end the Trump Era. Instead, we get results delayed by a...
Read More »Howdy folks, I’m in the middle of a two-part series looking at the past and future of digital politics and advocacy, running on Campaigns & Elections. The first section, published earlier this week, examines the past ten years — an era when digital politics truly came of age...
Read More »Trump and the Republican party have used the impeachment process as a fundraising hook since Nancy Pelosi launched the inquiry back in September, but they’re not the only ones profiting from his supporters in this political moment. Maggie Severns reports: As President Donald Trump raises...
Read More »My Twitter feed sparkled today with tweets, retweets and comments about my latest column for Campaigns & Elections, which talked about a fundamental difference between the ways Democrats and Republicans have historically built their email lists. Pivoting off a comment by a younger Republican...
Read More »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 American economic and political elites a serious...
Read More »Epolitics.com is likely to be quiet over the July 4th holiday, so I wanted to leave you with something to ponder for the long weekend. This piece first appeared on the site on July 5th, 2009, as the Iranian government was crushing a people’s uprising. Key thought: “…a gun is...
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