Brian Williams may be about to lose his position as anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News. It is now clear that he
Author: Arthur Lieber
Since 1969, Arthur Lieber has been teaching and working in non-profit educational organizations. His focus has been on promoting critical, creative, and enjoyable learning for students in informal settings. In the 2010 mid-term elections, he was the Democratic nominee for US Congress from Missouri’s 2nd Congressional District.
Funerals can break gridlock
If I hadn’t been watching Jon Stewart to catch up on some outlier news, I would not have known that Republican John McCain and
What if the President spoke to us as if he was on “The Wire?”
I’ve spoken with several people who just could not watch President Obama’s State of the Union speech. These are Obama supporters, but for various
Sharyl Attkisson book measures Obama and U.S. against a false standard
In a recent Occasional Planet post, Susan Cunningham writes: “We can blame the NRA all we want, but the enemy, as Pogo said, is
Police do better when they earn their respect
Hundreds, thousands of African-American youth are gunned own each year, mostly by other African-Americans. For many, their stories become the landscape of the world in which we live.
We need police who are also social workers
What would have happened on that hot August afternoon had a social worker come upon Michael Brown on Canfield Avenue? What if a
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
An honest way to prevent unrest in Ferguson: Do the right thing
There is justifiable concern about an outbreak of violence in Ferguson once the Grand Jury announces whether or not it is issuing an indictment
What we can learn from the shooting in Ferguson, Missouri
When I was in college in 1968, I attended Congressional hearings on the 1967 urban riots (soon to be followed by even more severe
Suing over executive orders: Politics as usual
There’s an adage that all politics is local. It makes a lot of sense; most issues are bread and butter ones that occur in