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Max Burns’s Biography

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Max is an award-winning advocacy communicator with 15 years of experience helping businesses, nonrprofit organizations and advocacy groups achieve their messaging goals.

Max built a record of success as Communications Director for the international advocacy group Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, and drove media around some of Change.org’s largest political petitions as U.S. Communications Manager. He also managed a portfolio of trade group and private sector clients as a Senior Associate at The…

Max Burns’s Journalist Portfolio

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Kevin McCarthy is cornered

Kevin McCarthy is cornered

McCarthy may find a way to hang on to his job, but make no mistake: the House Freedom Caucus is now doing all…

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How Immigration Became Cities' Political Nightmare

How Immigration Became Cities' Political Nightmare

Election cycles are defined as much by media crises as they are by the candidates. The 2020 election was all …

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Republicans just can't stop calling for civil war

Republicans just can't stop calling for civil war

Ask a MAGA Republican what will happen if former President Donald Trump is convicted in any of his four crimi…

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Our Republic is Dying

Our Republic is Dying

Under siege by antidemocratic reactionaries at all levels of government, only the people can save the America…

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Newsletter: Georgia's Must-See TV

Newsletter: Georgia's Must-See TV

Get your best takes of the week with DAME's newsletter, written by Max Burns.

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Vivek Ramaswamy's no good, very bad week

Vivek Ramaswamy's no good, very bad week

Unlike Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy lacks a built-in base of loy…

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Republicans have sacrificed Milton Friedman’s free market on the altar of Trump

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By Max Burns
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In late July, the Trump administration announced it would take equity stakes worth nearly $1 billion in seven more private semiconductor companies as part of its investment in domestic chipmaking capacity. For those keeping track, President Trump’s government has now taken ownership stakes in 30 companies since first demanding a 10 percent share of Intel last year.
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Trump’s egocentric indifference is sinking the Republican Party

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By Max Burns
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Natasha Kaiser President Trump is seen during a roundtable discussion on American mining at the State Department in Washington, D.C., on Friday, August 7, 2026. In any normal campaign season, now would be the time President Trump and his embattled Republican colleagues would be trying to expand their base.
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Progressives aren’t the enemy — centrist inaction is

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By Max Burns
| The Hill Verified
Abdul El-Sayed arrives for a news conference at the Spirit of Detroit shortly after winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Michigan, Aug. 5, 2026, in Detroit. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson, Associated Press) President Trump’s historically low approval rating of just 34 percent should be cause for celebration among the Democrats running to recapture Congress this November.
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Awards

PRSA Exceptionals Under 35

2019 - Public Relations

The Exceptionals Under 35 Awards document the accomplishments, creativity, and drive that today’s young communications practitioners show, recognizing those who are changing the landscape of the industry.

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