Daily Kos called Joe Scarborough the “resident Republican blowhard on MSNBC.” Daily Kos and many other on the left-leaning outlets have taken Scarborough to
Category: Democracy
Why journalists engage in so many false equivalencies
For some time, we have been examining why Republicans look at things so differently from Democrats. Much has been written about the Republican brain
Media does for Bernie Sanders what it never did for Dennis Kucinich
The first question that Anderson Cooper asked Bernie Sanders was, “A Gallup poll says half the country would not put a socialist in the
The sports-stadium blackmail game, and how to stop it
A great tradition of American business is to create demand when consumers are really not asking for anything. Nowhere is this more evident than
Voting rights watch: Is the pendulum swinging back toward democracy?
It has been very disconcerting to watch voting rights erode in America over the past 30 years or so. For those of us naïve
Some wins for Obama are better than others
June 2015 was a remarkable month for President Obama. In particular. the last week of the month was a real “winner” for the president.
Should the common good trump the Constitution?
In June 1963, President John F. Kennedy addressed the nation, urging Congress to pass a comprehensive civil rights act. Setting the stage for the
Citizen Four: The Oscars got this one right
Having missed it during its initial theater run, I finally got to see Citizen Four last night on HBO, the day after it won
Modernized, socially conscious “Cinderella” is still a fairy tale
A friend and I went to see the Rodgers and Hammerstein rendition of “Cinderella” at the Fox Theater in St. Louis yesterday. I don’t
President Obama could use a little help from his friends
If you are a progressive, you might say that in recent months (perhaps recent years), President Obama has been in a slump. The magic