Words to Win By - Don't Take the Temperature, Change It.

We uncover where people are capable of going & how to use our words, images & stories to move them.
If your words don’t spread, they don’t work. This requires constant repetition. Our messages must persuade the middle & energize the base.

Hacking the public debate with cognitive science.

Reframing America is about questioning the assumptions in our public debate that restrict our thinking, and proposing new and better ways of talking about what’s happening in our country and in our lives.

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We deconstruct propaganda to help you defend democracy

We our readers understand how political language works, and to illuminate the key frames in our political discourse – ideological structures that are often hiding in plain sight. We also analyze and deconstruct propaganda tactics.

Heather is the chair of the board of Color of Change, the country’s largest online racial justice organization, and volunteers for numerous other boards in the fields of philanthropy and social justice.

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Race-class explains how powerful elites stoke division, especially but not only around race.

And it offers a clear path forward: by rejecting division and coming together across racial lines we can take another big step toward racial justice and economic fairness, for all.

Claiming and caring for one’s identity, needs, and beliefs without degrading someone else’s in the process.”

Since 1997, the Institute for Civility has been working to promote civility—in government, workplaces, schools, and anywhere people gather to live, learn, work, and play.