"The British are coming! OMG! Wake up the militia! Sound the church bells! Update your Facebook status!"

Amid the flutter over Twitter, it's a reasonable question: What if people had been Tweeting for the past 300 years? How differently might we have experienced American history? What could be said about...

The screen goes dark. Rousing orchestral music fills the room. Text appears out of the blackness:

We Took A Giant Leap...

Then the image of a pockmarked grey surface emerges.

It's Time To Take Another Giant Leap

A spacecraft zooms past the earth....

I received a text message the night of Obama's historic victory thanking me for my involvement in the campaign. "This victory is all because of you," it said.

One of the big stories about the Obama campaign is how he organized people through the Internet and reinvigorated a sense...

"Latte-drinking Northeastern liberal elites" is a cliché you hear endlessly from people like Sarah Palin. It is used to show how out of touch us East Coasters are with "the real America". The heartland, where everyone is a straight talker and free from the evils of moral relativism. The...

Advertising has a knack of co-opting all that stands in opposition to it. This is no different with ironic skewering of Madison Avenue. Urban Outfitters sells ersatz retro t-shirts with slogans like "getting lucky in Kentucky". What was once satire of slogans is now ironic slogan for consumerism.

Where does...

A lot has been said recently about my generation: we are cynical apathetic, privileged, irrationally optimistic, ironically detached, isolated, connected in new ways through the Internet. We like to volunteer but not to protest, we like to protest but not to do grassroots organizing, and on and on. How can...

As a Jewish New Yorker there are few rituals as satisfactory for me as going out for a late-morning bagel. Recently, however, the enjoyment of my routine was disrupted when I noticed the shirt of a fellow customer. It had the iconic picture of Uncle Sam pointing authoritatively, with the...

I was recently in steamy Atlanta visiting a friend. While sipping mint juleps at a pool party, I heard a women's voice loudly declare, "America is number one!" She was recalling an argument she had with a German man who was on a short visit to the States. He made...