Voters usually think about ethics in moral terms: is this candidate or official a good person or not? Are they going to look after people like me or someone who’s given them money? Can I trust them to make good decisions? Ask a voter, and she or he isn’t likely to name...
Read More »Once again, Robert Mueller’s probe of possible Trump campaign Russia connections has ensnared one of our digital politics compatriots. Last summer’s party of interest was Trump digital director Brad Parscale; according to Reuters, this time the subpoena went to Roger Stone’s...
Read More »The collapse of liberal consulting firm Fizgibbon Media last week stunned many in the progressive movement, but the reasons behind it didn’t surprise a tragically large number of women in the field. Founder Trevor Fitzgibbon — a Big Name in the progressive communications world —...
Read More »Also published on The Huffington Post Tom DeLay was sentenced to three years in a Texas prison today, and I saw it coming almost 20 years ago. Sort of. Back in that distant, unwired summer of 1991, I was a wide-eyed recent college grad starting a brand-new job as a staffer for a member of the...
Read More »Also published on The Huffington Post and techPresident Minor scuffle in the online communications world: BP has purchased Google Ads on search terms related to the Gulf oil spill (for example: “oil spill”), with its ads showing up at the top of the results column whenever people look...
Read More »Ethics in political advocacy? That’s crazy talk! But the folks at GW’s Graduation School of Political Management are planning an event this week that proves that they aren’t afraid to take on an apparent oxymoron: A generation ago, rare was the public policy issue that brought...
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