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...Bruce Baum © 2010 Caucus for a New Political Science 2010 New Political Science, Volume 32, Number 4, December 2010 Film Review Hollywood on Race in the Age of Obama: Invictus, Precious, and Avatar Three popular US movies released at the end of 2009, Invictus, Precious, and Avatar, work...

...Joseph G. Peschek Abstract Barack Obama campaigned for and was elected president amidst an economic and financial crisis many called the worst since the 1930s and during a dramatic drop in support for the incumbent Bush administration. Many liberal and progressive voters hoped that the crisis...

...Natasha Altema McNeely @290 BOOK REVIEWS Bringing Race Back In: Black Politicians, Deracialization and Voting Behavior in the Age of Obama, by Christopher L. Stout, Charlottesville, VA, University of Virginia Press, 2015, 169 pp. In his examination of the role of race within elections, Christopher...

...Ryane McAuliffe Straus The Race Whisperer: Barack Obama and the Political Uses of Race , by Melanye T. Price , New York, NY : New York University Press , 2016 , 205 pp., $27 paperback, ISBN 9781479819256 © 2017 Ryane McAuliffe Straus 2017 @306 BOOK REVIEWS Notes...

... of the presidency is best situated to address such questions. "Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?" (President Obama repeating a question asked by his then eleven-year-old daughter, Malia) At a press conference on May 27, 2010, President Obama addressed the ongoing crisis of the BP /Deepwater Horizon oil spill. More...

... presidential election and Barack Obama's victory. Obama promised a break from the past in many ways. He argued for a post-racial, post-political, and most importantly, post-George Bush presidency. It would be a presidency committed to ending the war in Iraq, the closing of Guantanamo Bay (GTMO), healthcare...

...Claire Snyder-Hall Stephen Eric Bronner, The Bitter Taste of Hope: Ideals, Ideologies, and Interests in the Age of Obama , by Stephen Eric Bronner , Albany, New York , SUNY Press , 2017 , 199 pp., $20.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-4384-6548-7 © 2020 Claire Snyder-Hall 2020 @NEW...

... strategies of tax avoidance and reduction from the Obama to the Trump administration. I then draw on the theoretical framework that Giovanni Arrighi sets out in The Long Twentieth Century and ideas from The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus to analyze the Apple case. As my analysis makes clear, the flawed...

...Maxwell Burkey; Alex Zamalin Abstract Recent decades have seen an upsurge in interest in patriotism among progressive intellectuals and within progressive politics, while recent manifestations of black politics in the era of President Barack Obama have utilized patriotic narratives. We question...

... and Cloward’s analysis in farfetched ways to the economic policies of the Obama administration. In this interview Piven interprets the meaning of the right-wing attacks and discusses the state of contemporary American politics more broadly. She comments on the Obama administration’s major policies...

... those developments. Rather, it is the actual US policies that have been pursued (“sins of commission”), as well as the effective strategies pursued by Latin American leaders and organizations, which are largely responsible for the situation that confronts President Obama in Latin America. The article...

... these voters that made them more vulnerable to relying on emotions about Mexican immigrants, Muslim refugees, and African-American citizens, as well as their disdain for the first African-American President Barack Obama. As a result, these Trump supporters were less in a position to want or be able to question...

...Sébastien Mort Abstract During the campaign for the 2010 midterm elections, conservative talk radio (CTR) played a fundamental role in voicing the protest against the Obama administration. A radio genre that has long been equated solely with Limbaugh, CTR now includes a more diverse offer...

...Lorraine C. Minnite Abstract Before the rise of the Tea Party, propaganda primed the backlash to Obama’s election by controlling the media frame and much of the narrative about social forces capable of blunting the Right’s resurgence in the 2010 midterm election. This article analyzes the right...

...Matt Guardino; Dean Snyder Abstract Within months of Barack Obama’s election, a putatively grass-roots conservative uprising emerged to challenge the Democratic Party’s agenda. In this article, we analyze the role of cable news in the rise of the Tea Party during the current “crisis...

...Brandon Absher Abstract In August 2013, US president Barack Obama announced a plan to link federal financial aid to college performance.This plan, it is argued, will allow students, parents, and federal lenders to avoid paying tuition for an ultimately meaningless credential. It identifies relevant...

..., in the overall context of the neoliberal agenda, has affected US state governments in making the decision as to whether they will participate in this key component of President Obama’s reform bill. It contends that Democrats and Republicans have separate but interrelated visions for the neoliberal state...

...Brian Stipelman Abstract This article explores the New Deal’s theory of political practice and how it managed to institutionalize a progressive agenda in a country structurally and often ideologically resistant to change. In the process it offers lessons for, and critique of, the Obama...

...Peter Kolozi Abstract The neoconservatives have fallen out of favor among Washington policy-makers under President Obama as well as among conservatives themselves. However, neoconservatives’ impact on contemporary political discourse remains significant. This article is about the evolution...

..., Ph.D. Department of Political Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA liAs much as the Obamas, Jordan and that other Chicago 80s and 90s success story, Oprah - who like Michelle has been touted as a possible 2020 political saviour - have become symbols of Black exceptionalism, the former...