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New School Politics began in December of 2006. Its three founders, Eftychis, Ryan, and Zach, sought to create a forum for political discourse that included all viewpoints. While we began as an objectivist, a liberal, and a conservative, we’ve now grown to a group of more than ten writers. All are students, and all write from a different perspective.

Just more than a year has gone by since we opened NSP, and we think the coming months will be even better than the past year. To kick things off right, we’ve redesigned the site with a bit of help from Julien De Luca. You’ll hopefully find the aesthetic improvements to make the site much more visually appealing, and we expanded the total area taken up by the text to increase the amount of content we could fit on the page. We’ve made a host of tech tweaks in recent weeks to make the site easier to use while adding new features. We’re still playing around with the finer points of the design, but I think it’s safe to call this New School Politics 2.0.

Perhaps the most important change of all, however, is our post frequency. Months ago, readers might have not seen new content from NSP in days. Now, the new New School Politics has been publishing more than two to three posts per day, and we’ve had an astounding nine posts in the past thirty six hours. Our readership seems to notice too, as our analytics metrics are showing more return visitors who delve deeper into NSP’s vast archives for more content. In the coming days, we’ll hopefully have some new writers join our staff, as well as having our current staff ratchet up the post frequency even more.

We’ve also expanded into other areas besides traditional written posts. In the coming weeks, New School Politics will announce further endeavors into rich media, including a podcast. We have several episodes already recorded, and they’ll be put up in the next couple of weeks. Last week’s Blog of the Union attracted dozens of readers to interact and debate with NSP’s editors and some of its authors. It’s great to interact with readers, and we encourage you to comment on the site, or post our content elsewhere [like digg, reddit, or del.icio.us] . Next week, we’ll intensify our foray into Web 2.0 with a live video broadcast on what’s been dubbed “Super Duper Tuesday” by the mainstream media. Half of our staff will cover the primary results via liveblogging, as with the State of the Union. The other half will participate in New School Politics Live, a new show that we’ll produce using the Mogulus’ online broadcasting system. More details will be posted about that tomorrow.

We’re proud of what we’ve done so far, and we hope you continue to read as we expand further. January has been our best month at New School Politics, with more than twice the readers of any other month we’ve had before. We couldn’t have done any of this without our readers. It’s great to know that every day, there are people who truly care about the fate of our nation, and who are eager to debate about politics and economics. Candidates like Barack Obama have espoused change throughout their candidacies, and we’ve changed nearly everything at New School Politics. We think it’s for the better, and we hope to interact with you in the coming months as we continue our coverage of the 2008 elections and world politics.

Last 5 posts by Zach

• At Least She's Not a Quitter - June 5th, 2008
• Fidel Castro Steps Down - February 19th, 2008
• The New School Goes Road Trippin' - February 13th, 2008
• Obama Outlines Economic Plan in New Speech - February 13th, 2008
• Surprises Abound in a Stunning Super Tuesday - February 9th, 2008

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