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Weekly Column What's wrong with Obama's FightTheSmears.com: Obama's new site tries to fight ugly rumors by getting people to e-mail the truth to their friends. The strategy could backfire.; Farhad Manjoo 2008.06.16
Obama, Clinton's record campaign finances overwhelm Excel: But you can still read McCain's numbers in a spreadsheet.; Farhad Manjoo 2008.05.26
You too can investigate the Pentagon's pundit program: Plus: An IM chat between Obama and Clinton advisors.; Farhad Manjoo 2008.05.07
How the White House lost 5 million e-mails: Officials dropped the Clinton administration's automatic archiving system in favor of a fully manual plan.; Farhad Manjoo 2008.04.30
Prepare for the assault on "Grand Theft Auto IV": Will Hillary Clinton use the much-anticipated release to win over the concerned parents demo?; Farhad Manjoo 2008.04.24
Antiwar site lets you spend $3 trillion your way: A clever way to illustrate the opportunity cost of the war.; Farhad Manjoo 2008.04.18
In every measure, Obama clobbers Clinton online: Web traffic-monitoring firm Compete runs down the ways Obama trumped Clinton on the Internet in March.; Farhad Manjoo 2008.04.11
No, that photo doesn't show a naked woman in Dick Cheney's sunglasses: It looked fishy at first, but Cheney is just holding his rod.; Farhad Manjoo 2008.04.11
LegiStorm tracks political aides' finances -- invades privacy, too?: The site says it has a First Amendment right to publish public data.; Farhad Manjoo 2008.04.09
For news on Tibet, turn to Boing Boing: Internet news at its best.; Farhad Manjoo 2008.03.24
Poetry, psychology, and the Barack Obama Muslim e-mail: Also: Why "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit" worked.; Farhad Manjoo 2008.03.17
The new normal: China blocks YouTube over Tibet: Cutting off the Internet has become now every authoritarian government's first response to internal strife.; Farhad Manjoo 2008.03.17
Weekly Column How photos support your own "reality": Why do 9/11 deniers see an alternative story in pictures of the attacks? Because we all interpret images according to our biases.; Farhad Manjoo 2008.03.17
For Ashley Alexandra Dupre, selling music beats selling sex: In the last two days, Eliot Spitzer's escort may have made more than $1,000 an hour, and she didn't even have to take her clothes off.; Farhad Manjoo 2008.03.14
A look at Spitzer's Emperors Club Web site: "Our goal is to make life more peaceful, balanced, beautiful and meaningful."; Farhad Manjoo 2008.03.11
Are mass e-mail political campaigns worthless?: Clay Shirky and Danny O'Brien discuss e-mail's power in politics.; Farhad Manjoo 2008.03.11
Weekly Column Does "Obama Girl" help Obama?: Author Clay Shirky explains how the Internet's capacity to create ad hoc groups has altered the media, business and politics -- especially the 2008 campaign.; 2008.03.07
Winner of 2008 election accidentally leaked: "Hillary Clinton isn't about to give up just because she lost the election."; Farhad Manjoo 2008.02.26
Lessig decides not to run for Congress: The tech-policy activist says he's sure he'd lose.; Farhad Manjoo 2008.02.25
Bush-friendly station blocks "60 Minutes" Rove report: Was it just a technical snafu?; Farhad Manjoo 2008.02.25