Apparently, losses yesterday in New Jersey and Virginia mean that the Progressive Majority James Carville predicted -- built a year ago on the backs of Obama's zealous Facebooking young voters -- has nose dived one year after the country's historic election. For those who don't put much weight, however, on...

I was supposed to be relishing the city sounds and skyscrapers, but her f*ing framed photos of crashing waves and the two surfboards crammed in the corner of the studio apartment were an unsavory reminder that I was not, in fact, in my own home. Even his arms around me...

As America mourns the loss of legendary senator Ted Kennedy, I can't help but marvel over the way that technology has affected the way we mourn his passing, and the generational gap this difference illustrates.

For example, here is how the news played out in my personal Millennial sphere of...

This commentary was originally published on CauseCast.org.

As Congress' August recess drags and the media clings to every twist and turn of the White House's pimping of so-called health care reform, I am routinely asked why people my age are so quiet and unwilling to do any field organizing...

For a nation enmeshed in a generational and technological realignment, it's not shocking that doubts have begun to surface about the viability of our unprecedented president's vision for a new American era. As casual citizens and politicos terrified for years by threats of violence, economic collapse and moral certitude cling...

This commentary was originally posted at CauseCast.org.

If you Google the "demise of journalism," some 718,000 results will appear detailing the transition of consumers to the Internet, the decline of advertising revenue, the hacking of newsroom editorial staffs, the artificial knowledge of crowd-sourced information, and the collective threat...

I knew back in January traipsing around the nation's capitol in my stiletto gold heels while my exposed toes froze that Change City would not sustain its hyper-festive jubilee beyond the inaugural hullabaloo. With all my bicoastal coming and going between New York and Los Angeles most of this year,...

As we kick off today's Personal Democracy Forum, in which political high-rollers from both sides of the aisle will gather in New York to discuss how new media has altered our political process, I'm compelled to revisit the topic of heightened opportunities for bipartisanship or even post-partisanship within the netroots...

As I left the 140 Characters Conference (a.k.a. "The Davos of Twitter") yesterday afternoon, I was approached by a lovely suit-by-day-DC-based-lifestyle-blogger-by-night who wanted to chat about the business of blogging. The whimsical tone in her voice implied that her relatively interesting day job was not half as rewarding as...

This past month I've been absolutely riveted reading Paula Uruburu's book about the country's first "it" girl, Evelyn Nesbit, and the murder of her lover, Stanford White in American Eve. (The lover was offed by her insane millionaire husband, Harry Thaw, in 1906 and was a tabloid sensation, complete...

If I hear one more person declare that Obama's "honeymoon is over" or that the Republican response to the stimulus proves that his quest for a bipartisan America was naïve and ineffectual, I will surely scream. What I'd really like to know is: Where were these wise naysayers circa summer...

I recently needed to move a bed to my house. Alas, I found myself without 1) a large vehicle or 2) a big, strong and obligated boyfriend. So I opted for a solid backup plan: I called my Best Dude Friend and pleaded with his voicemail in hopes that we...

This post is the fifth in a week-long series. In an effort to remind people of the absurdity that dictates who makes the most important decisions on planet earth, this week I am publishing my private emails from the time I spent in Iowa last winter while making a...

This post is the fourth in a week-long series. In an effort to remind people of the absurdity that dictates who makes the most important decisions on planet earth, this week I am publishing my private emails from the time I spent in Iowa last winter while making a...

This post is the third in a week-long series. In an effort to remind people of the absurdity that dictates who makes the most important decisions on planet earth, this week I am publishing my private emails from the time I spent in Iowa last winter while making a...

This post is the second in a week-long series. In an effort to remind people of the absurdity that dictates who makes the most important decisions on planet earth, this week I am publishing my private emails from the time I spent in Iowa last winter while making a...

As 2008 ends with Barack Obama heading to his new pad on Pennsylvania Avenue, my thoughts keep returning to what was happening at this time a year ago, when I ventured to the Iowa caucuses to find out why a bunch of farmers deserved to pick our president. While I...

The following post excerpt is from my weekly column on millennial journalists in Editor & Publisher:

Few would disagree that the impending Obama administration marks the arrival of World 2.0, nor that social media will be a dominant force in the way our nation leads and solves problems across...

If someone had told me this morning when I exuberantly set off to cast my early vote at the Los Angeles County registrar's office in Norwalk that I'd be standing in line for SEVEN HOURS, I might have 1) packed a lunch or 2) reconsidered!

Despite the state's best efforts...

It may have been a wild ride for Barack Obama and John McCain just getting to this last week in the race for the White House, but imagine the bullets Perez Hilton is sweating this morning as he waits to find out whether George Clooney will oust him from his...