Top Ten Reasons for Young Americans to Vote

Voting in the United States is often a painful process. Even in states like Colorado, California and Minnesota where voting is relatively easy, voters need to get registered, find time to get to the polling place or fill out a mail-in ballot, and often wait in long lines at the poll itself to cast their […]

Why I joined the board of Rock the Vote

When I left LinkedIn to take time off, I began thinking about where to focus my civic energies to help reboot the US political system. I decided to spend time focusing on increasing our voting rates with the belief that higher voting rates will solve most of our political ills. I became especially interested in youth […]

Reducing Violent Crime Through Smart Environmental Policy

In my last post, I described how to talk politics to people who disagree with you: 1) tell compelling stories that 2) invoke at least one important morality and 3) talk to existing intuitions to open the user up to hearing more. In this post, I’m using those learnings to create a narrative advocating for […]

How to Convince People who Disagree with You about Politics

Just finished reading The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. Well researched and compelling read for anyone curious about why we get stuck on our opinions, the morality of liberal and conservative views, and how we got here, both from a political and an evolutionary standpoint. It dives into deep […]

“Does my vote really matter?” Yes – but probably not why you think it does…

“Does my vote really matter?” It’s a question that I hear from both voters and non-voters. It is easy to look at elections and the huge numbers of votes and think, “if I don’t show up, it doesn’t matter because it won’t affect the outcome.” Other similar refrains: “All politicians are the same — it […]