Dictator Trump Only Happens If We Let It Happen
As a political professional, it's extremely frustrating to read alarmist, catastrophizing essays about Donald Trump becoming a dictator
Oppenheimer and Pulling Punches: Nuclear War Without the Body Count
Content warning: This post includes a picture of a victim of nuclear war and links to similar pictures. It also
AI and Political Email — Ethics, Practice and Labor
As AI tools have started to get better at producing natural language communication, our community has debated how these tools should fit into email production and related applications for text, ad copy and other forms of digital communication.
Reactionary Centrism: a Response to Jonathan Chait
Jonathan Chait recently criticized a 2018 essay I wrote about “reactionary centrism," a term that's picked up
Welcome to the Era of Strategic Trolling
Trolling has a bad reputation. The term is usually used to describe bad faith arguments and the most annoying types
Avoiding the Process Trap — A Few Notes on the Forward Party
The curious case of Andrew Yang's Forward Party is a stark example of shortcut thinking in politics. Rather
Stop Taking the Bait on Bad Faith Debates About Word Choices
There are a lot of rolling debates about specific word choices in political discourse that have very little to do
When It's Not Lying, It's Often Paltering
Recently, I was discussing some disinformation about the pandemic with a few colleagues who work in science communication. We were
Participatory Vs. Transactional Politics
A lot of debates about how to win elections and Do Politics Good are grounded in different views of how
On January 6th, Good Organizing Won
A year ago, a right wing mob, incited by a Republican president, stormed the U.S. Capitol in the hopes
