I collected football cards as a kid I spent hours memorizing the statistics and even what the players looked like without their helmets on, just in case I ever ran into one of them at a local restaurant or at the airport, which was the only place I ever heard of anyone actually interacting with a famous person in ...

Twitter may be looking to burnish its battered image by starting to flag President Trump’s tweets when they are clearly at variance with the truth, but we shouldn’t forget: This is a platform that has shown little social responsibility in the past, and we’d be fools for thinking it’s going to start now Twitter has always been about what ...

I grew up in retail, the son of a haberdasher, so it’s easy for me to look at the presidential campaign as a basic sales challenge Or to quote my old man, “Don’t blame the customer for not buying a product if they were never talked to” So why, in today’s politics, are Democrats not marketing our candidate to ...

Several of the Democratic presidential candidates have invoked party unity in the wake of the New Hampshire primary, but the party is a long way from being united Internal squabbling is already running rampant and risks deterring or even disgusting general election voters over the next few months How can the candidates fight what promises to be a fluid ...

Twitter has earned a lot of positive press, and praise from both sides of the political aisle, for announcing that it will no longer allow political ads Unfortunately, the announcement was just a diversionary tactic, not a commitment to fix the many ways in which the site is undermining our political discourse, safety and democratic health Consider: Twitter is still ...

Last week’s Israeli elections presented a golden opportunity for the left, center-left and Arab parties to organize and rally behind a single unified effort Together, they could have mobilized to secure a firm majority for the forces of democracy and progressive values that the last election in April failed to deliver Unfortunately, they squandered that opportunity through fragmentation and ...

The 2020 presidential election may turn on how adeptly the Democratic Party nominee mobilizes marginal voters And that means crafting a digital strategy to engage and enthuse specific constituencies – particularly young and minority voters – that turned out in critical numbers for Barack Obama but did not quite deliver for Hillary Clinton Yes, the Democratic candidates are all using ...