Resources for Active Citizenship

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Anand Giridharadas

The Ink

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.

The Ink Book ClubBook: The Persuaders

Political Commentator

Anat Shenker-Osorio

ASO Communications

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.

Words to Win By PodcastMessaging Guides

Messaging Best Practices

Heather Cox Richardson

Letters from an American

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.

Substack NewsletterBook: Democracy AwakeningBook: How the South Won the WarPodcast

Political Commentator - Historian

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