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Category: Democracy

The case for the 38-year old Supreme Court Justice

February 17, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Activism, Campaigns, Civil liberties, Congress, Courts, Democracy, Ethics, Good government, Justice, Obama, Republican Brain, Supreme Court [SCOTUS] Leave a comment

This is not complicated. Here are two reasons why it would be an excellent idea for President Obama to nominate someone approximately 38 years

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The case for the Sanders revolution

February 15, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Bernie Sanders, Budget, Campaigns, Capitalism, Democracy, Demographics/Polls, Economy, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Politics, Republican Brain, Republicans, Survey 2 comments

Bernie Sanders is calling for a political revolution. Is there evidence to demonstrate that his “revolution” is needed? And why is the Sanders revolution

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Survey: Does our economic system favor the rich?

February 3, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Capitalism, Democracy, Democrats, Demographics/Polls, Economy, Politics, Republican Brain, Republicans, Survey One comment

Conventional wisdom holds that Republicans are the party of the wealthy. But as Donald Trump’s campaign has clearly revealed, there are plenty of Republicans

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We need a new presidential primary system, ASAP

February 1, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Democracy, Ideas, Politics 6 comments

The 2016 presidential primary season has started for real–kicked off by the Iowa caucuses. But our current presidential primary system is a disaster for

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Is the country headed in the right direction?

January 27, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Campaigns, Democracy, Economy, Obama, Voting/Elections One comment

Do you think that the country is headed in the right direction? When asked that question in public-opinion polls, Invariably, a majority of  respondents

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Trump: The man who would be king

January 11, 2016 Susan Cunningham 2016 Election, Democracy, Media, Republicans Leave a comment

“A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn’t enough

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Why a progressive would not mind seeing Trump win Iowa

December 29, 2015 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Campaigns, Democracy, Voting/Elections One comment

I have a very vivid memory of being in a meeting hall in St. Louis in late 2007 as Obama organizers were recruiting supporters

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What we’ve learned from right wing reaction to Obama, and now Trump

December 15, 2015 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, ACA/Obamacare, Campaigns, Civil Rights, Democracy, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Politics, Republican Brain, Republicans Leave a comment

On January 27, 1998, in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky revelations, Hillary Clinton appeared on the Today show and said, “The great story

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Judeo-Christian values? How about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights instead?

November 24, 2015 Arthur Lieber Civil liberties, Democracy, Foreign Policy, History, Human Rights, Religion in Politics, Republican Brain, Republicans Leave a comment

Following the attacks in Paris, Republican Presidential candidate and Ohio Governor John Kasich said that he wants to set up an agency with a

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Democracy watch, Nov. 2015: Two steps forward [ME, WA], one huge step back [NJ]

November 11, 2015 Gloria Shur Bilchik Cities, Democracy, Politics, Republicans, States, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

This November, people who care about enhancing democratic principles have a few things to feel good about. But, in the toxic political environment that

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