Guest Essay
The Rise of the Smartphone and the Fall of Western Democracy
We are paying a tremendous political and psychological cost for access to social media.
By Thomas B. Edsall
Thomas B. Edsall
Thomas B. Edsall’s column on strategic and demographic trends in American politics appears every Tuesday. He has been a weekly contributor to the Opinion section of The New York Times since 2011. He covered politics for The Washington Post from 1981 to 2006 and, before that, for The Baltimore Sun and The Providence Journal. He has written five books: “The Age of Austerity,” “Building Red America,” “Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics,” “Power and Money: Writing About Politics” and “The New Politics of Inequality.” He lives in Washington, D.C.
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