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Opinion: Has Social Media Lost Its Political Edge?

(Oct. 26) -- Meg Whitman, who's running on her record as a successful CEO of eBay and her understanding of the digital economy of the future, has only 250,000 Twitter followers. Jerry Brown, who isn't a shiny Internet politician, has more than a million. But does that mean anything? Does a candidate's box score of...

Opinion: Sherrod, Vilsack and the Dangers of Our Clip Culture

(July 22) -- The Shirley Sherrod saga is political theater at the most profound level. It's got layers: nuclear partisanship, racial freight, rich personal narratives -- making it part Greek tragedy, part Southern Gothic. Like Faulkner said, in the South the past isn't history -- it isn't even past. But these red meat,...