Articles on PR for People

How Can Hate Speech, Conspiracy Theories, etc., be Banned on Social Media?

How Can Hate Speech, Conspiracy Theories, etc., be Banned on Social Media? The legal answer to that question depends on how the courts treat the status of social media providers. The political answer depends on who and what you want to ban? 


Education is Critical Infrastructure

Twenty-five years after that first definition and attempt to identify and manage critical infrastructure, we are at a critical crossroads. It is clear to me that education should have been a defined national critical infrastructure sector from the outset.


Five Tips for Building a Home Wish List

Whether you’re thinking of buying a home soon or months down the road, you’ll need a carefully considered wish list when the time comes to start your search.


Media Monopolies Amplify Conspiracy Theories

 At the heart of any conspiracy theory is that some group secretly controls the government to manipulate our lives. That belief goes back to the beginning of our nation. Past Conspiracy Theories have often shaped our national politics.


Beauty in the Age of Covid

Patricia Vaccarino writes about the talented makeup artist NYC-based Jill Harth, who uses her expertise to render on-screen bliss and perfection.                         


Building Back Better: the Department of Health and Human Services

From the complexities of the ambitious public-private partnership called Operation Warp Speed, to the problematic early rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines late last year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has been a central player in formulating the United States’ response to the coronavirus.


Look for the light.

Things are looking up. I marvel that, exactly one year and three days after I last taught students in a university classroom, I will receive my first dose of the coronavirus vaccine. Over 90 million people have now received at least one dose, and the full powers of the government have been deployed to broaden and hasten the logistics around delivery. As I write, there are three different vaccines available which have significantly ramped production capacities in the last month or so.


Libraries We Love – Dancing Among The Stars

Each month, we profile a library: Large, small, urban, rural, post-modern, quaint or neo-classic, but this month we are presenting a new and different way of looking at libraries. Patricia Vaccarino writes about a fundraising collaboration between the Berkeley Ballet Theater and the Berkeley Public Library Foundation


Art. Freedom. Love.

Artist Milan Heger is in love with freedom as much as he is in love with art.


Building Back Better: The National Endowment for the Arts

The pandemic has hit the cultural sector hard. Barbara McMichael’s new monthly column examines the history of The National Endowment of the Arts and the possibility that the arts would once again be elevated in the Biden administration