We spend a lot of time talking about messaging, but not a lot of time talking about how we get messages out there and what we want people to do with them. Scale refers to how large political operations are, both in terms of money and people. Engagement...

This is a quick breakdown of a direct action I participated in this morning: a wake-up call outside Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's condo in Washington, DC. This episodes covers why direct actions like these are important and features audio from the...

Can you really persuade someone to change their mind? Absolutely. But it’s more complex than you may think. A lot of mainstream media discussions of “persuasion” imagine intellectual giants duking it out in the marketplace of ideas or thoughtful...

Hypocrisy arguments can trip people up because they try to shift a debate from the policy to the personal. And that's certainly true on climate change. Scientists often feel caught up in these political back-and-forths, but Dr. Kim Cobb has a different,...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just gave an incredible speech from the House floor. It was a response to a misogynistic encounter she had with Rep. Ted Yoho, but it was so much more than that; it was a deeply personal and systemic criticism of how...

Abolition or reform? It's not just a question of messaging: it’s about framing. For this episode, I spoke to my old professor Peter Loge, one of the smartest political communicators I know. Loge did some foundational framing work that helped...

Abolition or reform? It's not just a question of messaging: it’s about framing. For this episode, I spoke to my old professor Peter Loge, one of the smartest political communicators I know. Loge did some foundational framing work that helped...

I've worked on anti-censorship policies for several years. So amidst a rolling debate about free speech and free inquiry, I wanted to focus some attention back on government censorship of science related to COVID-19. After all, this is a life and death...

A ton of political arguments are made in bad faith. It's important to understand how such arguments work in practice and the utility they have for the person making them as well as their audience. When we understand WHY a bad faith argument works, we...

A ton of political arguments are made in bad faith. It's important to understand how such arguments work in practice and the utility they have for the person making them as well as their audience. When we understand WHY a bad faith argument works, we...