Pragmatic Liberalism and President Obama

Julio Ramirez Honored for Outstanding Mentorship by President Obama

prestigious annual award recognizes those who have expanded educational opportunities for women, minorities and people with disabilities in science, mathematics and engineering. Julio was presented the award at a special ceremony, held at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C. after a 30-minute meeting with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office. He also gave a 10-minut...

What President Obama can do in the USA.

If we Americans learned one thing from the previous occupants of the White House, Presidents matter. President Barack Obama has been left a huge mess to clean up. He will need wisdom, courage, phenomenal leadership skills, and a great deal of good will and luck to undo the damage of the last eight years and move the country to a healthier and more sustainable future. For public health nutrition...

President Obama: protect everyone's health while paying for patient care.

Along with so many others in the United States, we celebrate a new opportunity, with the election of President Barak Obama, to reform our health system. But, as we did in 1994 (when the Clinton era health reform debates raged, and long before we were the Co-Editors of this journal), we urge everyone involved to consider how to make improving health among the highest priorities in medical care r...

The American public's pragmatic liberalism meets its philosophical conservatism.

Voters , Emotions , and Race in 2008 : Obama as the First Black President

Social desirability effects make it difficult to learn voters’ racial attitudes. List experiments can tap sensitive issues without directly asking respondents to express overt opinions. The authors report on such an experiment about Barack Obama as the first black president, finding that 30 percent of white Americans were “troubled” by the prospect of Obama as the first black president. The aut...