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Arthur Solomon 11/14/25 Arthur Solomon 11/14/25

Pundits Rush to Explain NYC’s Socialist Mayor and Again Miss the Point

A sharp look at why pundits got New York’s surprise result wrong and what communicators must understand before 2026.

Arthur Solomon 9/29/25 Arthur Solomon 9/29/25

Israel Wins the War Yet Loses the Global PR Battle

Israel’s battlefield victories are overshadowed by global opinion losses, revealing a hard PR lesson for communicators.

Arthur Solomon 9/15/25 Arthur Solomon 9/15/25

Mainstream Media Narratives Are Branding Democrats as Extreme and Republicans as Normal

Arthur Solomon argues that decades of media framing have helped the GOP while leaving Democrats struggling to define themselves — a lesson in narrative control every communicator must grasp.

Arthur Solomon 7/14/25 Arthur Solomon 7/14/25

Cuomo’s Defeat Exposes the Democrats’ PR Failure

Andrew Cuomo’s stunning primary loss to Zohran Mamdani reveals not just a political shake-up, but a communications crisis for a Democratic Party struggling to connect with modern voters.

Arthur Solomon 6/11/25 Arthur Solomon 6/11/25

The Cuomo Comeback Could Be the Communications Strategy Democrats Desperately Need

Can a masterclass in crisis communication revive a fallen governor—and become the Democrats’ secret weapon against Trump?

Simon Erskine Locke 7/12/23 Simon Erskine Locke 7/12/23

The Orwellian Impact of Recent Court Rulings on Social Media Outreach, Affirmative Action And LGTBQ+ Rights

The far-reaching injunction against government departments and individuals against engaging with social media companies around disinformation, while providing free rein to individuals (and bots and foreign governments) to spread falsehoods, is in fact a looking-glass-world version of “1984” – completely at odds with George Orwell’s writings.