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In the midst of his first campaign for president, Barack Obama was forced to explain his long
association with a pastor spotlighted for racially incendiary remarks from the pulpit of an African
American church in Chicago.
Mark Silva
Political journalist, nature photographer, blues guitarist.
One of the things we are supposed to be celebrating in this era of social media, open-source
everything, citizen journalism, and various forms of "super-enabling" Internet politics is how it frees
us from having to rely on authority.
As the Rio 2016 and the Games of the XXXI Olympiad come to an end, Twitter has become a major
platform for how sporting events, governing bodies and associations, and professional athletes
engage and enhance the experience of such spectacles.
There have been so many nicknames for Donald Drumpf this year. My favorite is "Apocalypse
Cheeto." But it occurs to me that none of them captures the ...
This week showcased the best and worst of America. American Olympians continued to dominate
and inspire in Rio while, back home, the flailing and failing Trump campaign unveiled Trump 2.0. On
Tuesday, just hours after saying he would not pivot and proclaiming "I am who I am," Trump named
a new campaign manager and a new campaign CEO. The result? A prepared speech two days later in
which he expressed "regret" for the "personal pain" he's caused, and blamed it on "the heat of
debate." This is a man who has to pay people to tell him how to exhibit even a minimal level of
decency and maturity. But you can't rebrand depravity. As Trump himself said, he is who he is - no
matter what script some new employee loads onto his teleprompter. Maybe that $2 billion in free
media attention is finally coming back to bite him: Too much of America now knows exactly who he
is, which accounts for the dismal poll numbers that obviously prompted his "regret" - the desperate
last ditch effort of a car salesman as you're walking out the door. Meanwhile, we saw the best of
America in Rio, which Trump tellingly, though not surprisingly, has failed to acknowledge in his
ample Twitter feed. It's not just that the effort ran contrary to his bitter message that America can't
win, but that the America that won - a diverse, hopeful, inclusive America that looks like the future is the one he wants to erase.
What was it like to make an early investment in Twitter? What was the dynamic like? originally
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Just two years after immigrating to the United States, Cuban born, and Venezuelan raised, Maria
Conchita Alonso, made her Hollywood film debut in 1984...
My wife (who has a Roman shrewdness though she's more cheerful than Calpurnia) says I'm posting
too much political material on Facebook--she fears both for my wits and my reputation.

Stephen Kuusisto
Poet, essayist and memoirist; public speaker; Professor of Disability Studies, Center on Human
Policy, Law and Disability Studies, Syracuse University
Although piano was his 1st instrument at the age of 7, Kevin Lucas became a nationally renowned
percussionist and marimba virtuoso as a young man. The spine of this story however, is that Kevin
Lucas, a marimba and World Drum Specialist, was Born to Drum.
About a week and a half ago the Internet erupted with the latest viral hashtag: #firstsevenjobs. The
idea was to tweet/blog/Facebook your first seven jobs.
Spencer Knapp
One Young World Ambassador, tech employee, bridging the technology gap, millennial
We now seem to be so obsessed with gaffes that we no longer have the patience to wait for the
actual candidates to make them.
The answer is to strive for quality rather than quantity. To live and think well is based upon selfdiscipline, consideration and cooperation. None of these tenets are antithetical to social media, only
unutilized.
Tom Cohen
Special Projects Assistant, Berggruen Institute
Social media, in continuation of similar but far less effective distribution platforms such as Fox
News, is responsible for accelerating and tipping over a major transformation of western culture and
perhaps even of the species itself.
Photo by Flickr user Jason Howie
This past June, over 1.71 billion active users ...
Online harassment has been an ongoing problem since the dawn of the Internet despite efforts to
curb it, particularly in the last year by Facebook and...
The Donald Trump presidential campaign confirmed this morning that the alleged billionaire's
Twitter account has been run since its creation by an angry orangutan.
James Schlarmann
Comedian, writer, founding contributor of The Political Garbage Chute, holder of zero world records
or lifetime achievement awards.
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