Essays on Politico

Introduction

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign was launched in April 2015. She notified the public on her campaign website by stating that “I’m running for president”. She proclaimed herself a champion and stated that “Everyday Americans need a champion”. The mission statement provided by Clinton’s campaign is “We are a team, and this is about Americans”. Heading her campaign as chair is John Podesta, a former Whitehouse Chief of Staff. Campaign manager, Robby Mook, has been a long time Democratic player. Chief strategist and pollster is Joel Benenson who will have support from two other pollsters, John Anzalone ...

America is a country with various cultures and races working together to advance the current economic, social and political structures. Everyone plays a part in its making through voting, leadership, and social work among other things. However, the American’ culture and benefits people experience today came from various decisions made by the founding fathers of the nation. Apart from that, the struggles and abuse experienced by the forefathers enabled the next generation to have a better life. Hence, the three most interesting topics in the book are American Political Culture, Federalism, and Civil Rights. These entities make up the ...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) usually referred to Affordable Care Act (ACA) and nicknamed Obamacare is a U.S federal bill that was signed into law in March 2010 by President Barrack Obama, it is the latest healthcare transformation law that seeks to enhance quality and accessibility of healthcare services to all Americans (Ornstein, 2015). The PPACA empowers consumers to be in control of their own healthcare by giving them the flexibility of making well-versed choices concerning their health; this is provided for in the ACA under the Patient’s Bill of Rights (Levy, 2010).

Stakeholders in evolution of Affordable Care Act

Many stakeholders ...

Campaign Zero and Police Policies

In today’s society, there has been an increasing unrest on how police officers are treating the citizens of their towns. There are more news reports of police using unnecessary force when it comes to arresting a person or unfairly searching someone due to their racial background. Many advocacy groups against this type of behavior have sprung up over the months. These groups aim to protect citizens from being unfairly targeted by police as well as to change the ways police officers handle certain situations. One of these groups is called Campaign Zero. This group has targeted various problem ...

1. Introduction and statement of the problem Europe and European Union are facing one of the biggest migration and refugee problems after the history. The influxes of the migrants that are fleeing from the Middle Eastern and North African countries are risking their lives to reach the old continent. The deteriorating human rights, civil war, insecurity and abuses are forcing people to risk their lives on boats and long journeys. The majority of them are coming by boat which is increasing the threat of drowning that has reached alarming rates in the recent past. Based on the United Nations ...

It is difficult to pinpoint where the decline of modern journalism began to slide down the perilous chute towards sensationalism and garbage news, but what is certain is that at this current time the industry needs a new start. From what is covered and what is considered to be newsworthy the world has been steered again and again towards increasingly inane and nonsensical material. That which is considered news is easily likened to a mudslinging contest in a grade-school playground, or a smear campaign devised by a high school student to become the most popular. Journalism has become less ...

Rome brought light to the darkest and the most barbaric places of the world, and if and when it did, these were areas that posed value to the strategic interests of the empire rather than be regions that needed civilizing. Britain was the island whose unique geography allowed founding a city serving the imperial interests well. Its conquest improved the image of the empire as a formidable force to reckon with and enhanced the reputation of the emperor. Furthermore, the introduction of religious and cultural buildings into Londinium served the ideological purpose of exposing the new subjects to the ...

Neoliberalism is a politico-economic theory that has been used widely in the study of social sciences. It supports massive economic policies such as privatization, free trade, deregulation, fiscal austerity and it advocates for governments to cut their spending so as to enhance and augment the role that the private sector plays in the economy. The lecture by Derrick Hamilton was meant to explore how this theory has contributed to a racial wealth gap and its effects on businesses and the economy in general. The ‘Neoliberalism and Racial Wealth Gap’ lecture was an eye opener to the massive flaws of ...

Currently, the migration crisis has become a major challenge for European politicians. After the terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13 events in Cologne, and the recent terrorist attacks in Brussels migrants have lost the sympathy of the almost all of Europeans. Some experts even think that EU may crack due to quotas for distribution of the refugees. Eastern European countries opposed the introduction of quotas. The Austrian Government passed a bill that toughened the immigration rules. The refugees arrived in the country will have an ID card valid for three years. After a three-year tenure in the country, ...

INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

The pollution control efforts can be traced back to ancient human history where pure drinking water was an area of serious interest. This further became essential especially after the industrial revolution to protect and promote the environment in which we live and work. Various issues including the cost factors have been considered while enacting the laws. The international laws on environment along with having the laws of the individual countries also have all the various treaties and conventions. Some of the important laws among them are customary international laws on trans boundary resource pollution, UN economic commission on long ...

2014 midterm elections November 4, the main opponent of President Barack Obama - the Republican Party - won the majority of seats in the Senate in the midterm elections in the US Congress; moreover, it is not only maintained but also reinforced majority in the House of Representatives. Thus, the newly elected Congress, which will begin work in January, next year, will be fully controlled by Republicans. The upper chamber of Congress - the Senate - the first time since the beginning of the Obama presidency fell into the hands of the Republicans. Out of a hundred seats ...

The state of North Carolina had one senate seat up for contention in the 2014 mid-term election. From the onset, the race proved to be very hotly contested. The main two contestants were Kay Hagan, the Democratic incumbent who was standing for re-election and her Republican challenger Thom Tillis. During the campaign trail, preliminary polls showed that the main two candidates were tied neck to neck. North Carolina is a very dynamic state political wise as evidenced by the fact that during the 2008 election, the state majorly voted for Barrack Obama while in the 2012 election, the state went ...

In the current global situations, nations have realized the need for enhanced security policies which would be significant in facilitating a peaceful coexistent of the people. Long ago, the security policies adopted by nations were meant to address the needs of the military or the political class of a given country. However, it is believed that a security policy must be a multidimensional plan that incorporates various agents that sustain security of a nation. This is due to the fact that the security environment has been changing over time given the various challenges that have presented themselves with regards to world security issues. As a ...

the War on Terror the War on Terror The writ of habeas corpus can be literally translated into “you should have the body.” The words “habeas corpus” were the original first words of a writ, or legal action, that was began in Anglo-Saxon common law. This writ was ordered by the king, and used when prisoners were to be moved from an outlining prison to the king’s court to testify (Robertson, 2002). It has evolved, however, into a means for prisoners to challenge their incarceration. Prior to the most recent legal developments in this area, the writ was ...

Barack H. Obama, the 44th and second consecutive president of the United States, made his second inaugural speech in Washington DC on January 21, 2013, based on the official theme “Faith in America’s Future” to commemorate the United States’ perseverance and unity. The spirit of the speech was classical American. In clear tone and riding high on victory, it emphasized hard work, collective actions, self-reliance, and being liberal. Beginning his speech by embracing the fundamental rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, the President later contrasted the same by claiming that “individual freedoms ultimately require ...

Almost God-Like

Although for various generations dramatic forms of tragedy and comedy were universally comprehensible and their subsequent embodiment in various literary and expressive art works were clear, contemporary world perception had changed to the extent that reality became so complicatedly tragicomic that narrative art had to review the very essence of tragedy and comedy and pay more attention to their mixture. Various cinema critics might argue that classical Hollywood perception of tragedy and comedy remains the same and does not violate the rules of those dramatic forms. However, contemporary cinematograph witnesses the phenomenon of Roberto Benigni’s comedy and subsequent ...

Through the whole history of the mankind, it was followed by religion or belief of a certain kind. It did not matter how a religion was called, or who were the gods, religions always depicted value systems of the society or target group. It might have been imposed forcefully as Christianity in Kyiv Russ or developed on the basis of unexplained events, called miracles and resurrection of the Christ, eagerly accepted by poor classes of Judaist society. Irrespective of religion’ name and stage of development, it was in direct connection with the politico-historical environment of its existence. Subsequently, exploration and critical ...