Without a doubt, Julian Assange has been one of the most exciting, reviled and infamous characters to surface in 2010.

As the founder of WikiLeaks, he has signaled that our democracies are not democracies at all, but instead power structures disguised as such.

WikiLeaks and Assange exploded into...

Facebook's political team predicted the site would be the most accurate predictor of Congressional races, bar none. Were they right? Not exactly.

This was the first election year in which Facebook and Twitter had achieved ubiquity. Even during Barack Obama's Facebook-fueled campaign of 2008, the network was a long way...

In 1980, Ted Kennedy shocked voters by launching an insurgent campaign against his party's unpopular president, Jimmy Carter. Would Hillary Clinton dare?

If you're watching Sarah Palin, then your attention may be fixed on the wrong would-be female president.

Political addicts and analysts will be monitoring Hillary Clinton's...

The other day I was bouncing around the iBookstore when I came across a tab for "Books by Chuck Klosterman." I clicked the tab and 30 or so titles popped up. These were actually single essays for 99 cents or a $1.99.

This is a bold move for a...

On September 15, 2008, one of the most venerable and storied financial institutions in the world, Lehman Brothers, declared bankruptcy. Charles Ferguson smelled a rat.

Like he had done with No End in Sight, his 2007 film about the failed U.S. war effort in Iraq, Ferguson set out, in his...