This guide offers research-backed framing strategies for countering a manufactured controversy about what is being referred to as a “crime emergency”—supposedly caused by adolescents—in Washington, DC. It offers guidance for …
In recent months, our communities have been shaken by unconstitutional arrests, detentions, and forced expulsions of immigrants. Amid widespread fear, chaos, and uncertainty, it can be difficult to know how …
Metaphors need not dehumanize immigrants to justify harsh, violent, or cruel policies. Take the metaphor of “invasion”— an aggressive, unwanted incursion, an attempt at conquest. It’s not technically dehumanizing, but …