This month marks the sixth year since the triumph of hope over helplessness, fear, and greed. Young people defied their demographic chains, withdrawing from apathy and providing the votes necessary to tip the electoral scales and elect Barack Obama president. The memes and tropes were all in ...
Still Exceptional after All These Years: Socialist Rhetoric, American Exceptionalism, Populism and the Obama PresidencyObamasocialismexceptionalismThe paper traces the historical development of the American democratic socialist idea, specifically analyzing the ongoing political debate surrounding the conceFitrakis,...
Bush and Barack Obama had no such grounds for concern.1 Many scholars of the presidency see as the model for presidential-press relations as the amiable back-and-forth between reporters and presidents like Franklin D. Roosevelt or John F. Kennedy; they may also envision the reliance of 1 ...
His body of work features a range of tone and purpose — an array of choices as he seeks to strike the right balance for Harris as she tries to become the first woman, second Black person and first person of South Asian descent to reach the presidency. In 200...
In 2009, then President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his actions in the first year of his presidency including the“promotion of nuclear nonproliferation and a “new climate” in international relations fostered by Obama, especially in reaching out to the Muslim world.” ...
InPennsylvania, Democrats hold their narrowest voter registration edge in at least a half-century. What was an advantage of 1.2 million voters in 2008, the year Barack Obama won the presidency, is now a gap of fewer than 200,000, according to state statistics...
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Under president Barack Obama (served 2009-2017), US foreign policy prioritized multilateral diplomacy and international cooperation. He championed the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), orIran nuclear deal, designed to restrict the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program in exchange for econo...
That argument, of course, is long gone. As of today, the unemployment rate is down to 7.4%, which is the lowest point of the Obama presidency and the lowest it's been since late 2008. So, good news? Not entirely. Obviously, few actually root for a higher jobless rate, but this fig...
Others to make the list include James Clapper, who was Director of National Intelligence under former President Barack Obama; and Michael Hayden, a retired Air Force 4-star general, former director of the CIA and director of the National Security Agency. While many...