I'm the correspondent for AMC News on the AMC network, as well as executive director of Why Tuesday?, a non-partisan group working to increase voter participation, and I'm a contributor to Weekend Soapbox from NPR Weekend Edition. I was also a contributor to the PBS series Wired Science. I got my MA in political theory and philosophy from NYU. You can also find me on Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, and of course, via e-mail.
Here in Los Angeles, you know if the restaurant you're about to eat in is clean, kind of clean, or just plain nasty by the letter grades that are clearly posted in every restaurant's front window by the Los Angeles County Department of Public...
For the 2008 United States presidential election, we at Why Tuesday? teamed with YouTube and PBS to launch Video Your Vote, a program that intended to create the largest library of polling place Election Day video ever in order to help make voting as accessible, reliable and secure...
If it ain't broke, don't fix it, goes the expression. Well, according to the New York Times, the American voting system is broken. So let's fix it. For us here at Why Tuesday? it was an extreme pleasure to see an extra-long editorial making the case for election...
A famous actress gives her perspective about voting in this new get-out-the-vote PSA from whytuesday.org. Because democracy is about getting your views on governance recognized.
Saturday in Springfield, Illinois, Sen. Barack Obama selected Sen. Joe Biden to be his running mate for the presidency. I interviewed both men for the Why Tuesday? Candidate Challenge last October. I asked...
Minnesota has some of the highest voter participation in the United States. Now both candidates for Senate there are talking about improving voter participation nationwide, thanks to a YouTube political initiative.
Today at the Netroots Nation conference in Austin, I spoke with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, former Vice President Al Gore, and U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett about the proposals in Congress to move Election Day to...
U.S. Representative Steve Israel (D-NY) and I sat down yesterday in Washington, D.C., and he soon thereafter became the first member of Congress to report as a Why Tuesday? correspondent! Watch the video for our chat, and...
NEW YORK, NY -- Last night I spoke to our fellow Webby nominees and notables on the red carpet in New York City about what is hot in politics online, and it's not just Obama Girl....
This morning I went to the Grove in Los Angeles where HBO, promoting their new film RECOUNT, set up the actual Votomatic Florida voting machines used in the controversial 2000 Presidential Election, complete with butterfly ballots...
Oregonians' presidential preference will be known on Tuesday, but many if not most Oregonians have already voted. That's because Oregon is the only state in the Union that votes entirely by mail, and as NPR's Ina...
At Why Tuesday? we decided to explore Monday's Supreme Court ruling which determined that requiring voters to show ID to cast a ballot is constitutional. I visited with election law expert Rick Hasen and...
Record voter participation is expected in Pennsylvania today, but despite similar records being set across the nation this election cycle, America still ranks in the bottom twenty percent of all nations in voter turnout -...
Recently I interviewed Princeton computer scientist Edward Felten about malfunctions of touchscreen voting machines in New Jersey on Feb. 5th. PAVotes.com says these same machines will be used on Tuesday in Montgomery and...
Philadelphia, PA — Before the ABC News Democratic debate here, I talked with internet celebrity Amber Lee Ettinger (a.k.a. Obama Girl) about why she didn’t vote. Was it logistical difficulty or something else? Check out the...
I video chatted yesterday with Princeton professor Edward Felten. After he was alerted to strange vote tallies by Sequoia voting machines on Super Tuesday, Sequoia wrote to tell Felton that if he investigated the...
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont vote this Tuesday. Texas has some of the most confusing voting rules in the entire country - you can actually vote twice in one day! Some people...
Posted May 6, 2009 | 05:54 PM (EST)