This summer, frustration towards pervasive corruption in India reached a tipping point when hunger striker Anna Hazare mobilized thousands.

While an awakening of the world's largest pluralistic democracy should perhaps not come as a huge surprise, is something also brewing in neighboring Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the rest...

When the New Yorker published a recent essay slamming the effectiveness of new technologies for social and political change, it was an important step forward for 21st-century activism.

Malcolm Gladwell moved the debate over the merits of technology-driven activism forward by, one, raising its prominence and, two, eliciting

It's not uncommon for a president to recommend scholarly or journalistic work. It's rarer for the process to happen entirely online, as in the case of Ron Brownstein's recent blog post on the Senate healthcare bill.

The post, which argues that Reid's bill is more cost-efficient than critics suggest,...

Its garish colors and pop-up jingles have finally driven nearly all of the US Congress from MySpace. Unfortunately, they've left behind a lot of their constituents.

Plenty has changed since the spring of 2007, when MySpace was seen as a potentially invaluable tool for politicians. A close look...