White House Science Fair Features Top Student Projects

The chapter argues that President Obama had to “transcend” race by invoking a politics of color-blindness, building unity not by collectively acknowledging that the nation has a race problem, but through forgetting and ignoring the past and present. Moreover, anyone who believes an Obama administration is willing or able to challenge neoliberalism or has an interest in dismantling empire is deluded. He is president, and halfway into his first term he had made his political agenda clear: he has escalated the war in Afghanistan, is reluctant to reverse Bush policies of extraordinary rendition or refusing terror suspects trial, backed a watered-down health care reform bill, and the list goes on. Of course, he also faces the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and intractable House and Senate Republicans. Obama may have been shaped by abolition democracy, but it is simply impossible to be a drum major for justice in the White House.

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Questioning the president: Examining gender in the White House press corps

Journalism ◽

10.1177/1464884916669737 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 19 (4) ◽

pp. 519-535 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lindsey Meeks

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

Foreign Trade ◽

Potential Influence ◽

President Obama ◽

Women Journalists ◽

Men And Women ◽

Political Issues ◽

White House ◽

Press Corps ◽

Before And After

In 2014, President Barack Obama made history by only calling upon women journalists during a domestic news conference with the White House press corps. To capitalize on and examine this critical first in journalism, this study analyzed the potential influence of a journalist’s gender in White House press corps news conferences with President Obama a year before and a year after the all-female conference. The content analysis examined what political issues journalists emphasized in presidential news conferences and whether these issue emphases varied (a) by journalists’ gender and (b) before and after the all-female conference. Results revealed that, to some extent, men and women emphasized different issues. Furthermore, there were marked shifts after the all-female conference. First, women were called upon more often. Second, women emphasized several issues more than men. In particular, women became predominant on questions dealing with so-called ‘masculine’ or ‘hard news’ issues, for example, macroeconomics and foreign trade. This work suggests that gender, in all of its permutations – be it the journalist’s gender, the gendering of issues, or the gendering of occupational spaces – matters and may affect journalists’ lines of questioning.

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White House Science Fair Emphasizes Importance of STEM Education

Eos ◽

10.1002/2014eo220004 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 95 (22) ◽

pp. 184-184

Author(s):

Randy Showstack

Keyword(s):

Stem Education ◽

Science Fair ◽

White House

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White House Science Adviser Blasts Congress at NSF Meeting

Eos ◽

10.1029/2015eo038295 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 096 ◽

Author(s):

Randy Showstack

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

House Of Representatives ◽

Budget Cuts ◽

President Obama ◽

Climate Change Research ◽

White House ◽

Science Adviser

John Holdren, science adviser to President Obama, critiqued geoscience budget cuts passed by the House of Representatives and Congress members equating geosciences with climate change research.

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White House Science Fair celebrates student research

Science ◽

10.1126/science.aab0370 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Emily Conover

Keyword(s):

Science Fair ◽

Student Research ◽

White House

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Litigating the ACA: Securing the Right to Health within a Framework of Negative Rights

American Journal of Law & Medicine ◽

10.1177/009885881203800211 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 38 (2-3) ◽

pp. 537-547 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Katherine L. Record

Keyword(s):

Right To Health ◽

Economic Regulation ◽

Human Right ◽

President Obama ◽

Strong Argument ◽

White House ◽

Negative Rights ◽

Insurance Mandate ◽

The Government ◽

The Right

President Obama entered the White House with a clearly defined goal: expanding healthcare coverage to all Americans. He marketed this goal to the public and Congress as a “moral imperative,” as well as a necessary means to achieving a “more effective and efficient health care system.” Yet as reform proceeded, it became clear that the latter was the preeminent, if not only, goal of most legislators. While the President's rhetoric was essential in drumming up support for historic reform, it reflects an appreciation for human rights that many Americans do not share. As Congress focused on the failings of the most expensive healthcare system in the world, it became evident that the right to health (a fundamental and nonderogable human right under international law) would not be a factor in the new legislation.This defining characteristic of reform may, paradoxically, prove invaluable in preserving the law. In challenging the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), litigators, politicians, and judges have focused on principles of federalism, asserting that Congress has overstepped its authority in enacting such landmark legislation. As opponents hone in on the insurance mandate and Medicaid expansion, they condemn the unprecedented expansion of coverage that moves America closer to realizing a universal right to health. The government has an extremely strong argument that these provisions are properly grounded within Congress’s authority to regulate commerce or within its taxing and spending power, although legal scholars differ on the Supreme Court’s projected interpretation of the matter. Still, the law’s basis in economic regulation, and not rights, will, if anything, prove to be its saving element.

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