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We teach young people that education will set them free. If you get an education, the doors of opportunity will open wide. The world will be your oyster and your life will be better. Yet for millions of Americans, the opposite is true. For them, education has not been the key to a brighter future. […]

Progressives are stumped. They are asking these questions over and over again on social media, TV, and radio: 1) Why don’t Trump supporters turn against Trump even though he is doing things that hurt them? (like taking away their healthcare) 2) Why do Republicans hate the Affordable Care Act, and why are they so transparently […]

During Watergate, Richard Nixon famously said, “I am not a crook.�� And, immediately, Americans coast-to-coast thought of him as a crook. This incident inspired my book title Don’t Think of an Elephant!�� What does the title make you think of? Why does negating an idea so often have the opposite of the effect negation is […]

  Donald Trump knows the power of branding and actually makes huge profits by selling the use of his name. But the power of naming and branding can be a double-edged sword: when a president creates and perpetuates real human disasters, we can truthfully attach his name to them and allow well-earned disaster branding to […]

Normally I would never post a link to a story in Reason, a right-wing magazine. But I consider this particular story a tribute to the power of your voices and your actions. The writer of this piece is upset that we are reframing regulations as protections. He’s upset because he even sees regulations being framed […]

The enormous role played by science �� especially government-sponsored science �� in our everyday lives is barely appreciated. Start with modern medicine. We, the public, paid for it through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and research universities where the medical researchers, surgeons, doctors and nurses were trained, and where tools like magnetic resonance imaging […]

The net has been drawing closer around Trump’s Russian connections. His unwavering support for America’s major enemy has raised a question: Is Treason the Reason? The Tax Return issue has become a treason issue. The tax returns could show if Trump is deeply in debt to Russians or if he is involved in illegal financial […]

Journalists are bravely standing up to Trump’s attacks on the free press, as they should. Yet one way in which they’re expressing their solidarity and resistance shows how little most journalists know about political framing and messaging. Case in point: Trump has labeled journalists as “enemies.�� So, journalists have responded by labeling themselves ��#NotTheEnemy.�� This […]

1 �� To understand the basic issues, read “A Minority President��: 2 �� Know the difference between framing and propaganda: Frames are mental structures used in thought; every thought uses frames. Every word in every language is defined relative to a mental structure �� a frame. Frames, in themselves, are unavoidable and neutral. Honest framing is […]

  The American Majority got 2.8 million more votes in the 2016 election than the Loser President. That puts the majority in a position to change American political discourse and how Americans understand and think about politics. As a start, what is needed is a change of viewpoint. Here is a typical example. Minority President […]