by John Paluszek on Apr-05-2021
“The floodgates are open … a slew of corporations have come out against voter suppression” Axios has reported. Axios was referring to responses to Georgia’s just-enacted voter restrictions, but by inference also to the wave of such restrictions in development in some 43 states across the country. Stacey Abrams, iconic Georgia voting rights advocate, offered […]
by John Paluszek on Mar-21-2021
American professional societies have a responsibility to facilitate and support their members in serving the public interest. The latest excellent example: The Public Relations Society of America’s just-launched “Voices4Everyone” advocacy initiative. Its rationale: ” As strategy-focused communication experts committed to building mutual understanding, credibility and relationships among a wide array of institutions and audiences, while also advancing the […]
by John Paluszek on Mar-16-2021
President Dwight D. Eisenhower, establishing the United State Information Agency, 1953: ” … to understand, inform and influence foreign publics in promotion of the national interest, and to broaden the dialogue between Americans and U.S. institutions , and their counterparts abroad”. The USIA is no longer with us (absorbed into the U.S. State Department in […]
by John Paluszek on Mar-05-2021
(This commentary was first published on February 26, 2021 as,”Ethics Matter – Business Ethics: What Do We Owe Our Future Generations in Planetary Citizenship?”, on the website of the Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communication Management.) “Ethics” is growing. That is, “ethics” as a key aspect of conducting business in the evolving global society. […]
by John Paluszek on Feb-18-2021
Whither Trumpism now? An avalanche of analyses is already forming. So here – before the second impeachment trial fades from the front pages – is a proposed tracking for the months (and years?) ahead: I. Definition (Wikipedia): Trumpism is a term for the political ideology, style of governance,[9] political movement and set of mechanisms for acquiring and keeping power that are […]
by John Paluszek on Feb-09-2021
As the United States Senate opens the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump – one of the most far-reaching actions in American political history – the nation is engulfed in a miasma of conflicting public tensions. Consider a new report on the January 6th U.S. Capitol riot: The Chicago Project on Security and Threats at […]
by John Paluszek on Jan-27-2021
April 8, 1974 Atlanta Stadium, Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Atlanta Braves – “A Black man is getting a standing ovation in the Deep South.” – Vin Scully, iconic Dodger television broadcaster. The occasion, of course, was legendary baseball star Hank Aaron hitting his 715th career home run, breaking Babe Ruth’s record. Turns out that […]
by John Paluszek on Jan-25-2021
Yes, democracy has prevailed in America. And accompanying it the powerful force for service to the American commonweal and the world: COMPETENCE In the first 48 hours after the Inauguration, President Joseph Biden Jr. undertook a remarkable exercise of presidential authority. Among the initiatives: Signed 27 Executive Orders, each addressing a vital national issue. – Began […]
by John Paluszek on Jan-18-2021
Was the terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol the inflection point for corporate money in politics? The New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin thinks it should be – not just a “pause for reflection”, but a permanent policy commitment to cease donations to political candidates “An Epiphany” Moment for Corporate Donors May Have Arrived” . With […]
by John Paluszek on Jan-04-2021
“Historic Anti-Corruption Measures Become Law” “the most significant update to U.S. anti-money laundering laws in a generation.” That’s how the widely respected anti-corruption organization Transparency International summarized the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) included in the U.S. Senate’s Friday override of President Trump’s veto of the National Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021. The CTA is […]
by John Paluszek on Dec-01-2020
Sunday, November 29th 2020, FoxNews: The President of the United States Donald J. Trump proclaims he “will use 125% of my energy” during at least the next six months to continue trying to overthrow the November election results. And so, now it begins. As the U.S. government transition gets underway – finally – news media and […]
by John Paluszek on Nov-22-2020
Today, hard as it may be to imagine … there will come a time after COVID-19. The great news this month on vaccines for the virus, although preliminary, gives reason to begin to think what society might be like – perhaps what it should be like – when that time comes. Surely, the post-COVID-19 world will not […]
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Today, hard as it may be to imagine … there will come a time after COVID-19. The great news this month on vaccines for the virus, although preliminary, gives reason to begin to think what society might be like – perhaps what it should be like – when that time comes. Surely the post-COVID-19 […]
by John Paluszek on Nov-10-2020
A hundred fifty million votes. That is likely to be about the number of votes cast in the 2020 U.S. election – by far a record turnout. The herculean responsibility and task of insuring that all of these American votes are recorded and reported accurately has been delegated, as always, to a cadre of dedicated citizens who […]
by John Paluszek on Nov-02-2020
For many decades it was America’s political “Rubik’s Cube.” “It” being the effort to establish a national health service. President Theodore Roosevelt tried and failed. As did Presidents Truman and Clinton (although, in a piecemeal approach Medicare for seniors and Medicaid for the poor became the law during the Lyndon Johnson administration.) So, in […]
