Mobilizing Millennials: An American Prospect Special Report
Will their economic raw deal fuel the next New Deal?

Rock the Vote
Rock the Vote uses music, popular culture and new technologies to engage and incite young people to register and vote in every election.

Pew Internet and American Life Project: The Internet Gains in Politics
January 2008 survey finds twice as many Americans are using the Internet for news about the presidential campaign as in 2004, among (many) other things

Tax Politics
An examination of where progressives stand on tax policy, and the politics of progressive taxation

Progressive Priorities
Providing policymakers and the public with a positive vision for progressive policymaking supported by a series of new and bold policy ideas in priority areas identified by American Progress

Garrett M. Graff — the founding editor of the blog FishbowlDC.com and editor at large of Washingtonian magazine — asks how the technology that is transforming the global economy is going to affect the “first campaign of the new age."...Mr. Graff raises a lot of provocative questions about how candidates are grappling with “the new campaign paradigm” (which, he says, emphasizes a dialogue between candidates and voters, instead of a one-way conversation); how they are planning to chart America’s course in a new, globalized world that is increasingly reliant on broadband communication and technological innovation; and how his own generation (born in the 1980s and “more technologically savvy and more civic-minded than the one before it”) regards the current state of politics. ... (Read the full review.)

Garrett M. Graff — the founding editor of the blog FishbowlDC.com and editor at large of Washingtonian magazine — asks how the technology that is transforming the global economy is going to affect the “first campaign of the new age."...Mr. Graff raises a lot of provocative questions about how candidates are grappling with “the new campaign paradigm” (which, he says, emphasizes a dialogue between candidates and voters, instead of a one-way conversation); how they are planning to chart America’s course in a new, globalized world that is increasingly reliant on broadband communication and technological innovation; and how his own generation (born in the 1980s and “more technologically savvy and more civic-minded than the one before it”) regards the current state of politics. ... (Read the full review

In this ambitious book about technology's impact on politics, the author argues that the key issues for the 2008 election — business investment, education, health care, and global warming — are all tech issues at their core...[Graff] is at his best when he maps the ways in which the Internet is rewriting the rules of presidential campaigning

Q. Since the web makes organization and dissemination easier and less costly, do you think that online campaining could break the hold on political power of the two party system? Or, do you think it becomes just another mode of control for the big two (R) and (D)? What are your thoughts on how online campaigning affects the party system?

A. Just like in publishing, the web hugely lowers the barriers of entry to the political system. I definitely think that the web will help power third party candidacies in the future. The established parties will always have an advantage because they get to build their fundraising lists and email databases cycle upon cycle, adding to them for years. As people in business know too, owning the data is half the battle. ... (Read the full interview.)