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...
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...
In June of 2007, the political world was just waking up to the idea that individual citizens were going to shake up how political communications was done. As the the race to succeed George W. Bush rolled into its first summer, the Macaca moment was...
In private meetings last week, Hillary Clinton pledged in New Hampshire to work with state parties in “early states” to help them rebuild. At first appearance, this would seem to be an amazing boon. The trope goes that Obama for America...
Michelle Coyle Edwards is Vice President of Rising Tide Interactive (RTI). Read her previous work on Epolitics.com. When Hillary Clinton made her much–anticipated announcement that she’d be running for president, the inevitability of the act led...
Yesterday’s hacking of a U.S. military Twitter feed and YouTube page may not be militarily significant in any material way, but it IS a classic act of war…of the psychological variety. The hackers (presumably associated with the...
Earlier this week, we got to read Chris Casey’s look back at launching the first congressional website for Sen. Ted Kennedy in 1994. But what did this slice of the political web look like 20 years ago? Thanks to Chris’s collection of...
Guest article! Chris Casey writes on the 20th Anniversary of the first Congressional website, which he helped bring to life. This article first appeared on June 2, 2014 on Casey.com. UPDATE: check out screenshots from this and other early 90s Ted...
Molly Knight Raskin has a completely unexpected 9/11 story in Slate today, about the man who was quite likely the first victim of that morning (a former member of an Israeli counter-terrorism team who happened to be on board the flight that would...
Time to mark a technological changing of the guard: Indians have sent their last telegrams. After today, a medium that knitted the subcontinent together in the days before broadband and mobile phones will be no more: On July 14, the last for the...