2025
What 'Weird' Reveals About the Democrats' Messaging Crisis
There are no magic words. But moral attacks your base loves are the core of a winning strategy.
2025
What 'Weird' Reveals About the Democrats' Messaging Crisis
There are no magic words. But moral attacks your base loves are the core of a winning strategy.
How Framing Distorts Journalism and Empowers Authoritarians
You can’t cover fascism or authoritarianism objectively as a journalist—because you don’t get to exist in the world where those things prevail
Freedom
Harnessing Collective Power to Overcome Trump’s Fear Tactics
Power in numbers to defeat Trump's strategy of fear
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Book Club! Plus: New Yorker interview
FrameLab book club members: Please scroll to the bottom for an update. Over the past year, I have written a
Here's what you said. Plus: Book Club update
For those participating in the FrameLab Book Club today at 11 a.m. PST today, here is the Zoom link.
Breaking Frames
Framing Power: How Political Metaphors Shape Democracy
In today's newsletter: First, a short (3 minute) analysis of how the New York Times used a troubling
Breaking Frames
Desperate for 'despotism.' LA fire fuels NYT writer's authoritarian fantasy
'This infantile "I want a big daddy figure to reassure me" attitude goes a long way to explaining how Trump got a second term.'
Cognitive Bias
90 percent will click this post. Here's why
The 'wisdom of crowds' and the power of persuasion
Breaking Frames
Disaster frame: Republicans exploit Los Angeles fires to spread partisan lies
Plus: Important FrameLab Book Club details
January 6: When democracy triumphed over insurrection, tyranny, and violence
Plus: 10 Ways to Keep Democracy Alive (video version!)
'The main battlefield is the brain': Saturday reading and book club update
Here's a quick reading and an update (and reader poll!) for our FrameLab Book Club members. From The