When Doug Pinkham was named president of the Public Affairs Council in 1997, annual attendance at Council events was topping out at about 1,000 registrants. Today that figure has grown to more than 8,000. In the second part of our legacy series on Pinkham’s leadership, we explore how the Council identified the topics, trends and speakers that led to a new age of public affairs training and education.

With the fights for the White House, Senate and House razor close, it wouldn’t take much for many of the congressional contests to end up barely on one side of the partisan ledger or the other. Inside Elections’ Nathan Gonzales examines the multiple combinations of outcomes and why the story about the 2024 elections may take a while to write.

The vice president of government & public affairs for Atlantic Health System discusses the hardest thing about working in a post-COVID public affairs environment, what she learned early in her career working for New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman and why both New Jersey and San Diego are special places for her.

If you’re in the policy comms world, you come face to face with logical fallacies every day — maybe every hour. You’re up against misinformation, disinformation and sometimes sheer nonsense. But how good are you at spotting bad arguments? Check out these tips from a recent BBC story.

Your public affairs peers are making career moves. Check out who’s starting new jobs at the American College of Cardiology, Comcast, Meta, StubHub and TikTok, to name just a few.