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In his 2020 book The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health — and How We Must Adapt, MIT Sloan School of Management professor Sinan Aral offers a comprehensive and insightful new view of the opportunities and challenges posed by the advent of social media.

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GOP candidate Jeb Bush said Friday he considers rival and one-time protege Marco Rubio a "good man," but he told Newsmax TV that he does not believe the Florida senator has a proven record of success that compares to his own.

"Having a life experience where you've had to make tough choices, where you've had setbacks and you've learned from it, where you've had to make tough decisions

Wendy Davis, the Texas state senator and Democratic gubernatorial candidate who vaulted to political stardom after a well-publicized filibuster of anti-abortion legislation, writes in her upcoming memoir that she terminated a pregnancy, according to a new report. According to the San Antonio Express-News, Davis’ book, “Forgetting to Be Afraid,” describes an incident 17 years ago in her second

The most important red line of Barack Obama’s presidency was scrawled hastily in January 2007, a few weeks before he even announced he was running for president. Soon-to-be-candidate Obama, then an Illinois senator, was thinking about turning down an invitation to speak at a big health care conference sponsored by the progressive group Families USA, when two aides, Robert Gibbs and Jon Favreau