As Former Ambassador Testifies to Feeling Threatened by Trump, He Smears Her in Real Time
Alex Brandon/AP Marie Yovanovitch, the former US ambassador to Ukraine, testified on Friday to feeling threatened after learning that President Donald Trump had told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that she would be “going through some things” during a July 25 phone call. But as she detailed her trauma to lawmakers, Trump was on Twitter smearing her again, in a…
Even States With Green Activist Governors Won’t Settle Youth Climate Cases. What Gives?
Demonstrators during the Right to a Livable Future rally, supporting the lawsuit brought by Kelsey Juliana v United States at the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.Diego Diaz/Getty This piece originally appeared in High Country News and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. In 2011, 15-year-old Kelsey Juliana and 11-year-old Ollie Chernaik filed a…
Bernie Sanders and AOC Want to Commit $180 Billion to Turn Public Housing Green
Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., announce the introduction of public housing legislation as part of the Green New Deal outside the Capitol on Thursday, November 14, 2019.Bill Clark/Zuma This piece originally appeared in CityLab and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Socialist Democrats are pushing the progressive envelope with a new…
How Effective Is Facebook Advertising?
Jaap Arriens Online advertising is famously measurable: run an ad and count the clicks. What could be easier? But wait. What if most of those clicks are from people who would have clicked anyway, even without an ad? This is called the “selection effect,” and obviously your ad campaign is just wasted money if the…
Pelosi: Impeachment Testimony Was Evidence of Trump’s “Bribery”
Xinhua/ZUMA In spite of all the incriminating evidence presented at the first day of impeachment hearings on Wednesday—the testimony of two seasoned diplomats about President Donald Trump’s efforts to pressure a foreign government to interfere in the 2020 election, the bombshell revelation of a phone conversation implicating Trump—some of the media were unimpressed. “The first…
Outrage Culture Has Ruined the Apology
Ahem: In The Apology Impulse, co-author Sean O’Meara, a professional apologizer and public relations professional, argues that the corporate world has ruined the sanctity of the apology by failing to say sorry and over-apologizing. The book, which was published on October 29, examines the most egregious and effective business apologies in recent memory, from United…