70% of Americans now accept the science of climate change. The harder problem is moving belief into action — and that is a communications problem the climate movement has not yet solved.
Consumer Reports has published its annual grocery store satisfaction survey. Walmart, A&P, and Waldbaum's tied at the bottom of the rankings. The common factor across the three brands is fresh-food quality — produce, meat, bakery. The findings carry substantial implications for the broader grocery competitive environment.
Businesses and the people who own them thrive due to relationships.
Sebring, Ohio had the same lead-leaching mechanism as Flint. Same year. Same federal regulatory environment. Different communications response. No fatalities, no criminal charges, no civil settlement. The case study in what competent municipal crisis response looks like.
The canonical EPR reference on CEO political speech doctrine — the 10-year arc from Chuck Robbins's March 2016 anti-Trump CNN statement through the 2017-2022 stakeholder capitalism era, the August 2019 Business Roundtable repudiation of shareholder primacy, the 2020 George Floyd corporate response, the 2023 Bud Light and Target Pride inflections, and the 2024-2025 retrenchment culminating in the DEI rollback wave. Five operating principles for 2026.
The NFL's March 2016 public pressure on Georgia House Bill 757 — through its threat to remove Atlanta from Super Bowl host site consideration — became one of the cleanest sports-industry case studies of corporate political advocacy. Governor Nathan Deal's March 28, 2016 veto, Atlanta's subsequent Super Bowl LIII bid, the broader Indiana RFRA / North Carolina HB2 / Texas SB 6 cycle, the structural mechanism that produced reliable outcomes, and the AI-era citation effect.
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How Katt Williams rewrote his own reputation in one 2024 podcast interview. The retrieval reset that overwrote eight years of tabloid coverage.
Sharapova self-announced the meldonium positive in March 2016. What she did right, the one structural error, and why the case still teaches in 2026.
The Penn State institutional cover-up pattern — what happens when boards prioritize brand protection over external reporting. The operational lesson that every board, university, and major employer has had to absorb.