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Category: Democracy

Scarborough’s misconceptions about liberals in the media

November 6, 2015 Arthur Lieber Consumer issues, Democracy, Infrastructure, Media, Politics, Republican Brain, Social Sec/Medicare One comment

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

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Why journalists engage in so many false equivalencies

October 26, 2015 Arthur Lieber Corporations, Democracy, Ethics, Ideas, Media, Republican Brain 3 comments

For some time, we have been examining why Republicans look at things so differently from Democrats. Much has been written about the Republican brain

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Media does for Bernie Sanders what it never did for Dennis Kucinich

October 16, 2015 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, ACA/Obamacare, Campaigns, Democracy, Democrats, Good government, Health care, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Politics, Voting/Elections 4 comments

The first question that Anderson Cooper asked Bernie Sanders was, “A Gallup poll says half the country would not put a socialist in the

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The sports-stadium blackmail game, and how to stop it

October 6, 2015 Arthur Lieber Consumer issues, Corporations, Democracy One comment

A great tradition of American business is to create demand when consumers are really not asking for anything. Nowhere is this more evident than

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Voting rights watch: Is the pendulum swinging back toward democracy?

September 1, 2015 Gloria Shur Bilchik Civil Rights, Democracy, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

It has been very disconcerting to watch voting rights erode in America over the past 30 years or so. For those of us naïve

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Some wins for Obama are better than others

July 1, 2015 Arthur Lieber ACA/Obamacare, Civil liberties, Courts, Democracy, Employment, Gender issues, Health care, Justice, Military, Obama, Violence Leave a comment

June 2015 was a remarkable month for President Obama. In particular. the last week of the month was a real “winner” for the president.

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Should the common good trump the Constitution?

March 22, 2015 Arthur Lieber Courts, Democracy, Federalism, Good government, Justice One comment

In June 1963, President John F. Kennedy addressed the nation, urging Congress to pass a comprehensive civil rights act. Setting the stage for the

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Citizen Four: The Oscars got this one right

February 24, 2015 Gloria Shur Bilchik Civil Rights, Democracy, FBI/NSA/CIA, Government, Literature/Arts/Film Leave a comment

Having missed it during its initial theater run, I finally got to see Citizen Four last night on HBO, the day after it won

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Modernized, socially conscious “Cinderella” is still a fairy tale

January 26, 2015 Susan Cunningham Democracy, Uncategorized, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

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

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President Obama could use a little help from his friends

December 10, 2014 Arthur Lieber Congress, Democracy, Good government, Obama Leave a comment

If you are a progressive, you might say that in recent months (perhaps recent years), President Obama has been in a slump. The magic

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