Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg’s Cynical, Necessary Washington Strategy
FWD.us is playing a familiar game to get immigration reform passed
For championing a cause most techies and liberals agree with—reforming America's immigration system—Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sure has taken a lot of flak. READ MORE >>
Is Obama a “Redistributionist”? Sort of.
In response to the “47 percent” fracas, Mitt Romney has decided to come out swinging: There’s an Obama tape too! One in which Obama says he believes in redistribution! READ MORE >>
The Facebook Part of Your Brain
What’s Facebook’s Relationship Status With the GOP? It’s Complicated.
The Worst Lists
50 Most Beautiful PeopleThe Hill Is there anything less useful than this bloated vanity project? The apparent Republican bias only makes it more suspect. READ MORE >>
The Internet Intellectual
Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live By Jeff Jarvis (Simon & Schuster, 263 pp., $26.99) READ MORE >>
Apple Pie/de Rugy Intelligence Gap Apparently Growing
The usual right-wing line on increasing the tax burden on the affluent is that it's all "class warfare," the pathetic jealousy of peons like us trying to confiscate the hard-earned wealth of our economic superiors. When very rich people endorse higher taxes for the rich, though, the line has to change. Now these rich people are actually, despite their claims, trying to shirk their tax burden by foisting it onto people less rich than themselves. READ MORE >>