Cognitive Policy Works

This week the Supreme Court is considering a case about the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and legal protections granted to same-sex couples in states where gay marriage is now legally recognized.  This is a watershed moment in US cultural history and internet activists are doing their part to make a collective [...]

This article was co-authored by Joe Brewer and Lazlo Karafiath Pick any of the great challenges confronting humanity today and ask yourself “Is the quality of public discourse good enough to address it?” You’ll find that for every single issue — be it global warming, resource depletion, chronic poverty, or what have you – the [...]

Go here to help crowdfund this vitally important project! Thanks to all of you who have shared your memes with us so far!  We are gathering climate memes on Facebook and Twitter (by using the #climatememe hashtag) and encourage you to get involved and bring us the memes you don’t want us to miss! We [...]

I am excited to announce the release of a new report written by Andrew Darnton and Martin Kirk for Oxfam UK called Finding Frames: New Ways to Engage the UK Public in Global Poverty. Check it out: I helped inform their thinking about frames and provided a survey of key conceptual models shaping the development [...]

We just launched the Progressive Strategy Handbook, an open source platform for building capacity for the movement, where we promised to provide an online forum for ongoing discussions that lead to strategic initiatives. The first discussion topic we’d like to discuss is the branding of  what it means to be progressive.  This is a topic [...]

We are in the midst of a major paradigm shift in economic transactions.  No longer must consumption be treated as an individual act.  Emerging social technologies are enabling the foundational human capacity for sharing to break down the consumer transaction frame and replace it with a community-based capitalism that Rachel Botsman calls “collaborative consumption”. Watch [...]