Foster Genuine Culture

Katya Andresen writes that marketing needs to spur someone into action. Creating a message that doesn’t ask receivers to act in a particular way is rather pointless. This is huge, and one of the most important lessons one can take from her Nonprofit Marketing Blog (and she has many lessons to teach).
Don’t ever settle for […]

More than 100 organizations called for a National AIDS Strategy. After all these years in the epidemic we still don’t have one and the number of people that are being infected every year is not going down. Having given up on Bush, and who hasn’t, they call
AIDS is a national crisis. The next President of […]

The Southern Strategy pushed the Republicans in power during the Reagan era by playing on racist fears in the south while simultaneously disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of African Americans voters. A New Southern Strategy now silences the majority of Americans. It was created by Karl Rove and propelled Bush to victory in 2004. Craig had […]

One of the arguments to stay in Iraq is to ensure political stability. The current Iraqi government is clearly not creating political stability. Typically we assume incompetence or overwhelming circumstances for the lack of political progress. But another reason should be considered.
As soon as a modicum of political progress has been achieved, window dressed as […]

When I read Amanda Marcotte’s question on RH Reality Check
“How on earth could one of the most powerful political movements in the nation collectively be unable to string two thoughts together in any type of coherent form?”
I thought for a moment that she would be refreshingly self-critical. But alas. All she can add to […]

You know, Bill Richardson had a poor evening, but I kind of like his pragmatic approach. He doesn’t want to support gay marriage because he doesn’t think he can deliver on the goods once he is president. Kucinich may be in favor, but since he doesn’t really think he’ll be president, talk is cheaper for […]