Hillary Clinton personally e-mailed me and several hundred thousand of her closest friends on Tuesday to let us know that her much-anticipated HillCam was up and running, granting us quickie glimpses ...

Just how much do presidential campaigns know about the voters they’re trying to court? The short answer: More than ever. But figuring out precisely how the campaigns use your individual personal data ...

On Saturday, the Obama campaign sent an email to supporters mentioning Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino mogul who has donated millions to Republican super PACs. Politico noticed the email and ...

No one knows where they keep the Bush message machine, but when it is working well, it hums more quietly than the White House air conditioning. So precise is this instrument that it carefully prunes ...

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It sounds like a politician's dream: a machine that can tell you exactly what to say to change a voter's mind. Well, that's what a political scientist has come up with — at least, a first tentative ...

Democrats are good at a lot of things. They have a lot of good ideas, like child care, universal pre-K, cheaper prescription drugs, and family and medical leave. But here’s one thing they’re not good ...

Machine Gun Kelly is feeling a little sentimental this holiday season while navigating his split from Megan Fox. “Give it to someone special,” Kelly, 34, captioned footage from his A Motown Christmas ...

When Seattle-based start-up, Zipwhip, wanted to show off its new cloud texting platform, it needed a way to demonstrate just how useful it could be. Most companies might talk data points, like how ...

My husband finally got me to watch the movie “Hugo”. I’d had no desire to see it when it was first out in the theaters, because it had been advertised as a 3-D film. I’d also somehow had the ...