Craig Newmark has a bright future in advertising, and Spotme is still cool

Craig Newmark is a big fan of Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty, which aims to fight the insanity of the beauty-industrial complex while selling lots of cleansing products. Such a big fan that he says he’s offered some advice to the people at Unilever/Dove and its ad agency, Ogilvy and Mather: Take an ad in [...]

New column: Do presidents matter to the economy?

I have a column in the new Time with Hillary C. and Barry O. on the cover and online here. It begins: For decades, scholars have been churning out studies on the impact the economy has on presidential elections. The not-very-surprising message of most of them: economic trouble is bad news for the party that [...]