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...
“She was warned…she was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.†That’s what Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said yesterday when the Senate censured Elizabeth Warren. Her crime: reading aloud a letter from Coretta Scott...
Donald Trump’s nomination of billionaire school-choice advocate Betsy DeVos for Education Secretary does not sit right with many Americans. They’re not being shy about it, either: they’ve jammed the Capitol switchboard trying to...
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...
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!)...
Facebook’s come in for plenty of criticism since Election Day, in part for its role in helping fake election news stories and conspiracy theories spread online in the months before Trump’s victory. But did the vast social network help...
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...
New Epolitics.com contributor Ben Kaplan is the founder and CEO of PR Hacker. Read more on his blog. Becoming The First Viral President: How Trump Won The Race To The White House When Donald Trump sent a thunderbolt to the Democratic and Republican...
Aiden Livingston is the founder of Casting.AI and the author of the upcoming book, “Build a Bot Workshop — A Guide For Creating The Next Generation of Ai Startupsâ€. For a counterpoint, see my more-skeptical note at the end. Ever wonder why...