My father, Donald Dayton, died May 2, 2020. I am writing this page to collect resources about his death. This page, at least for a while, will be a living document as more tributes are written. He was born in Chicago, Read more…
My colleague Cameron Kistler and I wrote a blog post for why we joined Protect Democracy. Read on: We are writing as two people who have spent much of our careers in conservative circles. Soren has worked for Senator John Read more…
I wrote a piece on the current politics of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the EU-US trade deal, with a colleague of mine from Hill+Knowlton’s Belgium office. It is mostly just a review. During the last negotiation round Read more…
POLITICO Influence reports on my new job: ALSO FIRST IN PI… Hill+Knowlton Strategies added Soren Dayton, an experienced digital communications and public affairs strategist, as a senior vice president. Dayton comes from Prism Public Affairs (which subsequently merged with Rasky Read more…
The net neutrality debate has picked up in India based on “zero-rating” or the idea that a service could be provided where the user didn’t pay for the data. I have long wondered how organizations like Facebook, Google, Wikimedia, and Read more…
India’s election made quite an impression on me. I wrote some initial thoughts at the time. More recently I wrote a piece for the Takshashila Institution‘s Pragati magazine on Indian national interest. The basic argument is that Indian democracy provides Read more…
I wrote a piece about the importance and logic of convictions, using the opportunity provided by a conviction that our office got which we believe to be the longest in the history of India. Go check it out.
Over at our blog about our work in South Asia, I wrote about a recent case that our office handled and what it shows about migrant and trafficked labour in South Asia: This week, our office was engaged in a Read more…
My wife, Amanda Butler, and I have moved to South Asia to work with International Justice Mission, on bonded labor. Please see the site that we have set up so that our friends and family can follow our work.
But yeah. I had been interviewed on C-SPAN then… I had more hair then