On Friday, Internet pioneer and open information activist Aaron Swartz took his own life at the age of 26. At the time of his death, Swartz was under indictment for logging into JSTOR, a database of scholarly articles, and rapidly downloading those articles with the intent to make them public. If Swartz had lived to be convicted of the charges against him, he faced 50 …

The Shorty Awards are a worldwide effort to engage hundreds of thousands of Twitter users to identify the best people and organizations on social media, culminating in a blockbuster ceremony in New York City. We’ve won a Shorty before (who could forget this acceptance speech?) and we want one again, will you help? All you need is a Twitter account. You can …

In order to introduce our new TYT network partners we’re doing something crazy in January, we’re giving them each the keys to our Twitter account (@TheYoungTurks) for a day.   Here’s the schedule January 5  – Lee Camp @LeeCamp January 12 – Dennis Trainor Jr. @dennistrainorjr January 19 – David Pakman @dpakman & @davidpakmanshow January 26 – Julianna Forlano @AbsurdityGirl February …

Here’s 2012’s top ten most viewed clips from TYT Network. This list consists exclusively of clips we published on TYT network in 2012. ———————————— 10. ‘Innocence of Muslims’ Sparks Outrage  1,218,937 views, published on 9/12/12 on The Young Turks …the movie — “Innocence of Muslims” — would be blamed the world over for inciting mobs in Egypt and Libya. The movie was …

Cenk will be moderating a panel called: Legislative v. Constitutional Remedies: The potential and limits of legislative solutions from 1:00 – 2:15 pm PST with Trevor Potter (former FEC Commissioner – lawyer to Stephen Colbert’s SuperPAC), Lawrence Lessig (Harvard Law School), and Trent Lange (California Clean Money Campaign) RSVP to this event by Clicking Here  The Money out of Politics Conference at UCLA …