We ask the hardest questions about politics and culture, money and power.

The media is in crisis. The old sources of trust and authority are crumbling, but we’re also living through a media renaissance, and we’re betting that newsletters — like this one — are a big part of that.

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.

I'm a history professor interested in the contrast between image and reality in American politics. I believe in American democracy, despite its frequent failures.

This is a chronicle of today’s political landscape, it explores what it means, and what it has meant, to be an American.

I launched this newsletter as a way to take a deep dive into important political and legal topics, broken down in plain English & easily digestible morsels. We created a community here of folks committed to protecting the rule of law, our civil institutions & the future of our democracy.

I bring you news and politics from Missouri and beyond from a rural progressive point of view.

I was a high school Literature teacher for 16 years until I decided to run as a Democrat in a rural, red district in Missouri.

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A daily political activism newsletter that comes out 5 days a week.

If you’re here you’ve decided you’d like to do a bit more to help our country avoid a collapse into authoritarianism. You’ve made an excellent & patriotic choice & you’re about to start feeling a lot better about everything.

Worried about the state of the republic? Get the legal knowledge & analysis you need to be an advocate for democracy, along with a dose of savvy optimism

I believe that being a citizen is the most important work any of us can do, a key part of our role is to educate ourselves & stay informed

Daily news and analysis that respects you as a citizen.

You’ll get in-depth information and perspective on the things that really matter. In 2008, I was Hillary Clinton’s Research Director, which means I was in charge of researching her and her opponents.

Promotes efforts to dismantle structural inequality. We utilize new ideas & innovative perspectives to transform public discourse and policy. We promote strategies that embrace the intersections of race, gender, class & the array of barriers that disempower those who are marginalized in society.

Nobel laureate in economics. 2000-2024, New York Times opinion writer

Subscribers will receive each new newsletter in their inbox. Most of my stuff, above all weekday posts driven by current events, will be free.

The newsletter started in February 2017 as my effort to provide hope and perspective to my family after the unexpected results of the 2016 election. Over time, my family email was shared among friends and became of community of like-minded citizens devoted to preserving American democracy.

The dark forces of authoritarianism are with us, along with growing inequality and corruption. There’s no simple remedy. But part of the answer is to grow a community of people committed to spreading the truth and contributing to a better world. Which is why I’m here, and presumably why you are.

Ways we can help save our democracy... Daily emails with concrete actions to save democracy and build a better nation. Since 2016. 70,000 strong.

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I write, teach, and speak widely about the relationship between innovation and inequity, knowledge and power, race and citizenship, health and justice.

I am a transdisciplinary scholar, writer and educator.

Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University. She writes about fascism, authoritarianism, propaganda, and the threats these present to democracies around the world.

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Hopium is a rejection of the darkness MAGA is trying to spread. It is a way of standing up for our great country and its remarkable people. I am calling it Hopium Chronicles because I want this to be a journey guided by hope and optimism, of belief in ourselves, in love of country and a clear understanding of the nature of the conflict we are in.

The latest views and opinions from US politics, plus other fascinating subjects, including cutting-edge science reports.

Psychotherapist, international relief worker. Politics, history, spirituality, psychology, science, anthropology, pre-history, culture, and the natural world.

Thinking is always “about.” It never lands.

I will do some thinking, and we will do some thinking together. I like the idea of trying to transform the internet, at least our little corner of it, into a sane space.