My latest Campaigns & Elections column sets us up for the year ahead, with a look at three big trends that we should watch in 2018. A preview: Campaigns, nonprofits and other political actors will confront the same social-media challenge now...
You might have missed the news in the never-ending blizzard of Trump-related stories, but digital politics now has a role in the investigation about possible ties between his campaign and the Russian government. Specifically, members of the now...
This year’s congressional special elections have generated tons of media coverage, most focusing on implications for the 2018 midterms…and for the Trump presidency. But digital folks should note two important trends that I point out in...
Download your own copy of this poster from ResistHere.org For a liberal American, one of the few political joys of Trump’s First One Hundred Days has been the chance to watch the resistance to him and his agenda take shape. In just over three...
Donald Trump is trying to change America. In the process, is he changing political Twitter? News coverage of the social media platform itself often focuses on its financial woes, but in the political and cultural worlds, it reigns supreme as a tool...
Congressional town hall meetings under siege about healthcare? It could be 2009, but it’s not — and the Congressmembers in question are Republicans, not Democrats. Like their Left-leaning colleauges eight years ago, some Republicans are...
While Epolitics.com was well into its post-election hiatus in December, I awoke briefly from an editorial slumber to write in Campaigns & eletions about the strange year political data had in 2016. My definition of “data” was...
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!)...
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...
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...