Ari Melber

Ari Melber

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Ari Melber is the Net movement correspondent for The Nation magazine, the oldest political weekly in America, and a writer for The Nation's 2008 campaign blog. He is also a columnist for The Politico and a contributing editor at the Personal Democracy Forum, a nonpartisan website covering technology’s impact on democracy. Melber served as a Legislative Aide in the U.S. Senate and was a national staff member of the 2004 John Kerry Presidential Campaign.

Email: amelber(at)hotmail.com
Facebook Group: Net Movement Politics
Monthly writing distribution list: Google groups

As a commentator on public affairs, Melber has been quoted by publications such as The New York Times, Roll Call, and Time, and appeared on national radio and television, including CNBC, CNN, CNN Headline News, C-SPAN, FOX, MSNBC, NPR and Air America, on programs such as “American Morning,” "Washington Journal," "Power Lunch," “The Live Desk," “Weekend Live with Brian Wilson,” "MSNBC Reports with David Shuster," "Your World with Neil Cavuto," "MSNBC Election Night After Hours," “MSNBC Live with Contessa Brewer,” "MSNBC Live with Amy Robach," “MSNBC Live with Chris Jansing,” and "MSNBC Live with Alex Witt," among others.

Melber has been a featured speaker at forums sponsored by the Harvard Law School, Yale Political Science Department; Campaign for America's Future; Young Democrats of America; Democracy for America; New York's Blogging Liberally; Personal Democracy Forum, YearlyKos 2006, the first national netroots convention; and YearlyKos 2007. He also served on the Advisory Committee to the YearlyKos Leadership Forum for seven presidential candidates in August 2007.

Melber's commentary has appeared in The Baltimore Sun, The Philadelphia Daily News, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Forward, Alternet.org, CBSNews.com, TPMCafe, DemocracyArsenal.org and The American Prospect Online, among others, and he has reviewed nonfiction books for The New York Post, Kirkus Reviews, and The Stranger. His writing has also been widely cited by publications across the spectrum, such as the New York Times Magazine, NYTimes.com, The Week, The Washington Times, WashingtonPost.com, Economist.com, Wired.com, Time.com, The Wall Street Journal Online, The National Review Online, The American Conservative Online, The Atlantic Monthly Online, The American Spectator Online, New York Magazine Online, and Slate, among others. He is a contributor to "MoveOn's 50 Ways to Love Your Country," a bestselling book about political activism (Inner Ocean Publishing, 2004). He was born and raised in Seattle, Washington, and received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.


Selected Recent Writing

Online Activists Keep the Pressure on Obama, The Nation
About Facebook, The Nation
McCain makes waves in GOP punditocracy, Politico
Bush's 9/11 Tradeoff, The Nation
Obama, Race & The Presidency, The Nation
'Rage and Cave Democrats, The Nation
Is Obama's Iran Resolution the Antidote to Kyl-Lieberman?, The American Prospect Online
Not a Blank Check, Baltimore Sun
Who Cares What the Terrorists Want?, Philadelphia Daily News

Blog Entries by Ari Melber

McCain's Head Games on Taxes

1 Comments | Posted July 22, 2008 | 10:30 AM (EST)

It really is psychological for John McCain.

Asked to defend his admittedly paltry gas plan in April, he touted the "psychological boost" of shaving a few cents off the gallon. Asked last month to explain the purpose of an offshore drilling plan that does not even purport to alter...

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Netroots Nation Diggs Pelosi, Tubes Obama

6 Comments | Posted July 21, 2008 | 10:39 AM (EST)

From The Nation.

Champion's, a typical sports bar in Austin, Texas, ran a curious greeting on its scoreboard all weekend: "Welcome, Netroots!" The pulsing light bulbs faced a giant convention center hosting Netroots Nation, an annual conference for the Internet Left, which grew out of volunteer brainstorming sessions...

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Great New Yorker cartoon analysis at NN panel from http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/ #

- Ari Melber, tweeted July 19, 2008

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Huffposter Jason Linkins is wrong to call antiwar protesters "attention whores." Let's respect each other. #

- Ari Melber, tweeted July 19, 2008

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My dispatch on Gore's surprise netroots visit: http://tinyurl.com/62vfk8 #

- Ari Melber, tweeted July 19, 2008

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ThinkProgress scooped Pelosi on Gore's surprise appearance. #

- Ari Melber, tweeted July 19, 2008

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Pelosi slams "17 Democratic Senators" for paving the way for telco immunity. (But she didn't have to sched. a vote, of course.) #

- Ari Melber, tweeted July 19, 2008

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"We have one president at a time, so it’s the president’s job to deliver those messages" - Obama on trip, p.report #

- Ari Melber, tweeted July 19, 2008

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"We have one president at a time, so it’s the president’s job to deliver those messages” -Obama on mideast trip, pool report. #

- Ari Melber, tweeted July 19, 2008

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"We have one president at a time, so it’s the president’s job to deliver those messages.” - Obama on mideast trip, pool report. #

- Ari Melber, tweeted July 19, 2008

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rumor is the special guest is leading the fight against global warming (NN08). #

- Ari Melber, tweeted July 19, 2008

Netroots Summit Grapples with Bipartisan Attacks on Rule of Law

61 Comments | Posted July 18, 2008 | 06:26 PM (EST)

Politicians, legal experts and progressive activists grappled with Republican abuses of power at the third annual netroots convention on Friday, debating how an Obama administration might restore the rule of law. Cass Sunstein, an adviser to Barack Obama from the University of Chicago Law School, cautioned against prosecuting criminal...

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HuffPo commenters note Harold Ford was mistaken to say Tester supported FISA bill at NN. He opposed it: http://tinyurl.com/55suff #

- Ari Melber, tweeted July 18, 2008

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For advertising, The New York Times is very much a food and fashion publication, so it's hard to be independent -Krugman (NN08) #

- Ari Melber, tweeted July 18, 2008

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Krugman: No number of pamphlets would pass the New Deal. It took more; book-length ideas, political leadership, courage. #

- Ari Melber, tweeted July 18, 2008

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"I was making management nervous." "The election settles some things." Paul Krugman describing media pressure he has felt. (NN08) #

- Ari Melber, tweeted July 18, 2008

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Harold Ford notes that Webb, Tester and "netroots" members voted for FISA bill, but that's not a disparagement of the movement. #

- Ari Melber, tweeted July 18, 2008

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"Let's suspend our differences between now and November" - Harold Ford calls for DLC-netroots truce to elect Obama. (NN08) #

- Ari Melber, tweeted July 18, 2008

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Harold Ford is defending the DLC as a non-Beltway institution. (NN08) #

- Ari Melber, tweeted July 18, 2008

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Siegelman calls for Rove to testify before the US House -- & House should also subpoenas his underlings. (NN08) #

- Ari Melber, tweeted July 18, 2008


 
 
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