"when the city they love finally loves them back"

Brands are vehicles for emotions. You can't build those vehicles with surveys.

Weekend Reading Live with Farrah Bostic

A conversation with Mike Podhorzer about <waves hands> all this.

People Like Me

A democracy indicator, as good as any other.

Representative Democracy is an Interface

Some reflections on my conversation with G. Elliott Morris, all while reading a book literally called Oligarchy.

Political Market Making

The key to matching voters with ideas is mobilization

Say What You're For

My conversation with Anat Shenker-Osorio

Gatekeepers v. Barbarians

A second attempt at last week's post about "being a Democrat"

You are not a Democrat.

And neither am I.

What should pollsters do in the absence of a horse race?

A new episode of Cross Tabs, featuring Ariel Edwards-Levy

Why does all this ambition & abundance seem so... small?

A few half-formed thoughts on what I suspect is getting in the way of leadership.

A Post-Truth Economy Built for the 1%

My conversation with Faris Yakob of Genius Steals about the YOLO economy, diverging demographic destinies, and why there is no "average" American for you to appeal to, in politics or marketing

What is a brand?

What do Democrats have to do with soda, burgers, rental cars, sportsball teams, or SaaS? Let's discuss.