Articles
Table of Contents for Selected Recent Articles
1. Law & Public Policy
2. Politics & Campaigns
3. Internet & Technology
4. Culture & Media
5. Reviews
Law & Public Policy
After Shooting, Gun Control Petition Breaks White House Record (The Nation)
Do Liberals Support Obama’s Kill List? (The Nation)
Breaking with Democrats, Some Activists Target Obama’s Kill List (The Nation)
Is Obama Good for Black People? (Reuters)
What Happened to Post-Racial America? (Reuters)
Bush’s 9/11 Tradeoff (The Nation)
How Congress Can Force Spying Back Within The Law (Philadelphia Daily News – co-author)
Today’s War on Terror Anniversary & Bush’s Forged Check (Baltimore Sun/Huffington Post)
Learning from President Bush’s Mistakes (Politico)
Facebook and the National Surveillance State (TPM)
Does Facebook Own You? (The “New Privacy”) (Huffington Post)
Does Facebook Own You Forever? (The Nation)
Letting Bush Spy on Americans is Unwarranted (Politico)
Will The Senate OK More Bush Spying? (The Nation)
Will Democrats Restore Liberties Stolen in the Bush Era? (Alternet)
Is Obama’s Iran Resolution the Antidote to Kyl-Lieberman (American Prospect)
Limbaugh’s Lying Voters Under Investigation (The Nation)
The President’s Never-Ending Virtual Town Hall (The Nation)
Web Puts Dog-Whistle Politics on a Leash (The Nation)
About Facebook (The Nation)
Liberals More Open Than Conservatives Online (The Nation)
YouTube for Smart People (The Nation)
Condi Rice’s Tortured Macaca Moment (TechPresident)
New Data Shows Palin as Paper Grizzly (The Nation)
The People’s Press Conference (The Nation)
Obama’s Reality Show Presidency (Politico)
From the White House to the Next Open for Questions (TechPresident)
Obama’s Cocaine, Clinton’s Pot and The Facebook Generation (PDF)
Obama’s Online Health Care Drive: Epic Fail? (PDF)
The New Activism: Why Volunteering Declined in Campaign 08 (Harvard Publius Project)
U.S. Soldiers Blocked From Blogging (The Nation)
How to Put Our Economic Outrage to Good Use (Politico)
Free Elena Kagan (The Nation)
Cynicism in the Supreme Court Hearings (CBS)
Dodd Takes on Michael Moore (The Daily Beast)
Why The New Torture Defense is a Good Offense (CBS News/The Nation)
White House Misreads The Left (Politico)
Learning from President Bush’s Mistakes (Politico)
Time is Now to Uphold Constitution (Politico)
The GOP’s Hip Hop Makeover (The Nation)
Who Cares What The Terrorists Want in Iraq? (Philadelphia Daily News)
The Real Ticking Time Bomb (Politico)
‘Terrorism Card’ is Trademark Republican Play (Politico)
McCain’s Head Games on Taxes (Politico)
Winning Dem Holds Key to New Strategy (Politico)
Edwards Reengages in Search of a Doctrine (Democracy Arsenal)
Clinton’s American Opportunity (Democracy Arsenal)
‘Responsible Plan’ Echoes in Washington State (Politico)
The Clinton Saga Continues: What She Taught Obama (TWI)
Death by a Thousand Republican Jokes (TWI)
Lieberman Democrats Have No Place in Opposition Party (The Forward)
Dean Offers New Ideas to Democrats (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Exposing Obama’s Not-So-Secret War (Politico)
Fighting the Filibuster (Reuters)
Why Won’t the GOP Talk About Affirmative Action? (Salon)
Obama, Race and the Presidency (The Nation)
Why the New Torture Defense is a Good Offense (The Nation)
Waste Behind Bars (The Nation)
Court Raises Stakes on Health Care Law (Politico)
Prevention is Not Always the Best Medicine (Politico)
Obama Courts Disaster with New Detention Plan (The Nation)
Obama’s Transparency Problem (The Nation)
Dawn Johnson’s Fall and Justice Stevens’ Replacement (The Nation)
Did John Edwards Break the Law? (The Nation)
Our Long Hot Summer of (Faux) Racial Tension (The Nation)
To Understand Obama, Do the Math (Politico)
Politics & Campaigns
Tapping E-Mail List, Obama Hammers GOP on Taxes and Discharge (The Nation)
Will Obama use his Campaign List to Break the Filibuster? (The Nation)
ALEC’s alienating political agenda (Politico)
Paul Ryan needs to rebrand himself (Politico)
Iowa Is Over (The Atlantic)
Press, Public Need to Keep Obama Open (Politico)
D.C. Insiders Not Doing Obama Any Favors (Politico)
Clinton and Obama Finally Slam Pentagon Propaganda; McCain Silent (Huffington Post)
Obama’s Wired Tuesday Push (The Nation)
Obama Always Loses (Huffington Post)
McCain Plays Gender Card in Pig Ploy (TWI)
McCain’s head games on taxes (Politico)
Clinton Backer Bob Kerrey on Smearing Obama (Huffington Post)
Only Obama Will Truly Change Course (New York Daily News)
Obama Targets bin Laden, Defends Constitution & Shames Palin (TWI)
Nervous Dems Give Obama Stupid & Redundant Advice (TWI)
Obama’s Wide Net (The Nation)
Obama Tots Txting VP ADN (TWI)
Obama’s George Costanza Attack On Ayers (TWI)
Obama Demands Bailout in Major Address (TWI)
Obama Plays Offense (TWI)
Obama’s YouTube Speech Tops TV Ratings (Huffington Post)
Obama’s Bush Rebuttal Breaks Another YouTube Record (Huffington Post)
Slouching From Bayh: Results of the Anti-Draft (TWI)
Stop Obama/Bayh 08 (TWI)
Obama’s Colorado Summit (Politico)
Why Obama’s Win is Bigger Than You Think (Huffington Post)
Obama’s Transparency Problem (The Nation)
Dems will be better off if Harry Reid loses (Politico)
The President’s Never-Ending Virtual Town Hall (The Nation)
Obama’s Decisive Victory for Liberal Government (The Nation)
For Gingrich Gaffe, Video Killed the Video Star (The Nation)
Why Election Day no longer matters (Reuters)
Report: In the Debates, Romney Broke the Rules More than Obama (The Nation)
Obama Keeps Darker Secrets than Romney (Salon)
Battling over what the vote means (Politico)
The Tea Party’s Social Agenda (Politico)
Report: Romney Economic Plan Hurts Red States, Helps Wealthy Urbanites, While Obama Boosts Rural Areas (The Nation)
Bark is Worse than Bite on Reform? (Politico)
Confronting the Coded Racism of Donald Trump (The Nation)
New Congress Begins with Charades and Debt Threats (The Nation)
Gingrich: The Most Serious Joke in the GOP Presidential Race (The Nation)
Extremism becomes Norm on Holder (Politico)
New Gingrich’s ‘historic’ campaigns (Politico)
Look at the Numbers: Voters will back Barack Obama (Politico)
Why do Liberal Attacks on the Tea Party Echo Attacks on Liberals? (The Nation)
Promises Kept and Broken, One Year Later (The Nation)
Plouffe Counters Obama’s Healthcare Critics (The Nation)
Looking Back at Year One of Organizing for America (The Nation)
Organizing for America: The Birth of the “Permanent Field Campaign” (e.politics)
Former Obama Adviser: Why is the Administration so Unassertive? (The Nation)
Internet & Technology
Presidential Debates Respond to Campaign for Women Moderators (The Nation)
Why Romney is Losing the Meme Election (The Nation)
The Liberal and Digital Battle Over Change (The Nation)
Why Obama is Right About Change, but Wrong About the Outside Game (The Nation)
Can Egypt’s Internet Movement be Exported? (The Nation)
YouTubing the Election (The Nation)
Obama’s Web-Savvy Voter Plan (The Nation)
Hope Will Not Be Televised: Obama YouTube v. Clinton Clash (Huffington Post/The Nation)
McCain’s Unfiltered Blog (TechPresident)
McCain’s YouTube Problem (TWI)
MySpace, MyPolitics (The Nation)
GoogleBomb This! (The Five Stages of Republican Grief Online) (Huffington Post)
Hagel’s Internet Movement: A Success That Hasn’t Occurred Yet (TechPresident)
YouTube: Political Democratization or Destruction? (TechPresident)
YouTube Reinstates Blocked Video of Child Allegedly Tortured in Syria (The Nation)
The Secret to Facebook’s IPO Value (The Nation)
Bloggers Back Obama’s Agenda, Not His Strategy (The Nation)
New Study: Liberals More Open than Conservatives Online (Huffington Post)
Three Reasons the Internet Backlash Worked Against Progressive Car Insurance (The Nation)
Caught on Tape: Obama Adviser Explains how to Control Media (The Nation)
What Does the Kony Viral Video Say About Us? (The Nation)
Rupert Murdoch 2.0! (The Nation)
The Left Never Left Obama (The Nation)
When Animated Bears Explain: Can Viral Video Save the Economy? (The Nation)
The Antisocial Network (The Nation)
The Sociology of Political Blogs: An Interview with Yochai Benkler (The Nation)
Culture & Media
The Terrible Insight of ‘House of Cards’ (The Atlantic)
White Male Pundit Power (The Nation)
Ex-WashPo Blogger Wrong About Why He Was Wrong (The Nation)
Crowdsourcing Elizabeth Edwards (The Nation)
‘SiCKO’ Criticisms Echo Old Attacks (Politico)
Media Blows Debt Crisis Coverage with Balance Bias (The Nation)
Jay-Z Re-enters Kanye-Bush Fight: Katrina was Like Selma (Huffington Post)
After White House Invite, Conservatives Got Tough on Soft Rapper (The Nation)
Bill O’Reilly Raps: NYT Discovers Talk Radio-Hip Hop Nexus (The Nation)
Georgetown Professor Explains his New Class on Jay-Z (The Nation)
The Most Powerful Liberal in America? (The Nation)
Why Roger Ailes Watches Fox on Mute (The Nation)
On Sotomayor, Conservative Media “Echo Chamber” Hampers GOP (The Nation)
Reviews
The Amorality of ‘Django Unchained’ (The Atlantic)
Bloggers at the Gate (The Nation)
Embarrassment and Riches (The Stranger)
Honest to Blog (The Stranger)
It’s The Economy, Stupid (and Morality and Patriotism and…) (The Forward)