While conventional wisdom suggests that the arts have been depoliticized relative to the 1960s, there’s been a surge of celebrity engagement since the Trump years.
Danny Goldberg
Danny Goldberg is the author of the books Bumping Into Geniuses and How The Left Lost Teen Spirit and is President of Gold Village Entertainment. He serves on the Boards of Public Citizen and Stamp Stampede.
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End Citizens United: Reform Group or Cash Cow?
A new multimillion-dollar PAC that claims to promote campaign finance reform has drawn progressive fire over its aggressive fundraising tactics.
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Youth Hostile
Back in 1984, when I produced the first MTV voter-registration spots, a number of my liberal activist friends were worried about Ronald Reagan’s popularity with youth. I asked then-Congressman Tom Harkin, the Democratic nominee for the Senate, if he thought increased youth turnout would hurt him in a state that, because of heavy cable penetration, […]
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Papa, Don’t Preach
A ccording to the Voter News Service numbers, Al Gore beat George W. Bush among 18- to 29-year-old voters by a mere 2 percentage points (48 to 46), a gigantic drop in this age group from Bill Clinton’s 19-point margin over Bob Dole in 1996 (53 to 34) and 11-point margin over George Bush the […]
