Reading Katie Harbath's “Disrupting Politics” from the margins

What a leaked NRSC memo reveals about where the party committees want the AI aligned SuperPACs to focus their general election money

A journey of five years, countless weeks of writer's block, more Post-it notes than I can count, and a lot of patience to create the final 286 pages

Young Harris voters are in the same feeds at the same rate, but only 19 percent report being persuaded by an influencer.

An insider's look at the decisions nobody had a playbook for and why I had to tell it myself

Following 404 Media's reporting on how LinkedIn is full of AI slop, the platform is giving users a chance to report it when they see it.

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Our 2026 report finds news audiences around the world reacting with growing unease to successive episodes of political, economic, and technological turbulence. Assumptions about the way the world work...

A survey of campaign professionals, consultants, and political organizations gathering insight into how AI is being used across campaigns and political work today. This survey is anonymous and results...

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What Meta's Q1 earnings reveal about the personalization tradeoff — and what we might lose along the way.

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Building a political content labeler with AI — what actually works

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Off the Record briefing for February 2026

A conversation with Katie Harbath

The 2026 midterms start a four-year period where platforms, politicians, and AI reshape each other. Here's what to watch when no one knows what's coming next...

One year into Donald Trump’s presidency, foreign nations are increasingly skittish about their dependence on U.S. tech companies.

A look inside my process for navigating conferences, summits, and what comes after

How the ground is shifting under AI, media, and trust.

A Year in Review (and What's Next)

Color forecasting isn't just aesthetics—it's emotional intelligence that predicts how people will show up, who they'll trust, and what messages will land.

How generative AI, global regulation, and shifting user expectations are transforming trust and safety faster than the systems built to manage it.

UW-Madison's Katy Culver and Stanford's Rob Reich join to discuss how the worlds of reporting and technology are colliding the philosophical questions and values we should take into account as they do

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The only thing I can guarantee is change. The best election campaigns will evolve and pivot quickly.

What a last-minute upgrade and a quick instinct taught me about transparency, timing, and the power of noticing.