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Recommended by Chuck Watts

Subscribe to Katharine's newsletter for a clear-eyed and hopeful look at climate science and solutions. Receive weekly climate updates, good climate news, event information, ideas on things to do and ways to join the conversation.

Messaging Methods -- encouraging critical thinking

By Jan Roberts Stickel

2024 -- Inquiring minds want to know. Exploring topics through different prisms ~ creatively opening doors and dialogues, breaking silos -- with respect for many venues of opinions.

Reframing America

By Antonia Scatton

Changing the way the American Left engages in the public debate.

I am inspired by the framing of our current events by this George Lakoff student.

- Chuck Watts

The Good in Us by Mary L. Trump

By Mary L Trump

In which we come together to save American democracy, or at least have fun while trying.

The Crucial Years

By Bill McKibben

Working on Winning the Climate Fight

Bill McKibben has been trying to save us from ourselves his entire adult life. Serious mitigators of our carbon pollution blanket keep up with Bill.

- Chuck Watts

FrameLab

Moral Politics, Meta Narrative, Language and Your Brain

George Lakoff's FrameLab is our mentor's great blog and podcast. See you there.

- Chuck Watts

Robert Reich

Daily newsletter exposing where power lies — and how it's used and abused

Michael Moore

I was born in Flint, Michigan and raised on a dirt street by loving parents, two sisters and a lot of Green Giant in a can.

If only everyone's heart was as big as Michael's. My wife and I were in the audience when Michael came to Wilmington, Ohio.

- Chuck Watts

Thinking about...

By Timothy Snyder

Opening the future by understanding the past.

If you've read ON TYRANNY: 20 Lessons from the 20th Century, this is your next go to regular reading.

- Chuck Watts

Lucid

By Ruth Ben-Ghiat

A newsletter for big-picture thinking about autocracy and threats to democracy around the world