Barack Obama, the first Black-American president, has been widely heralded as a role model for BlackAmericans because he inspires hope. The current study was conducted to assess whether, beyond simply inspiring hope, this ‘‘Obama Effect” has a concrete positive influence on Black-Americans’ academic performance. Over a three-month period we administered a verbal exam to four separate groups of ...

Would the outcome of the 2008 election have been different if Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, or a past Democratic nominee (like John Kerry or Al Gore) had been the nominee? In this paper we treat the counterfactual model earnestly and compare 33 different presidential elections, some real and some hypothetical, in order to understand how candidate traits and election-level characteristics affec...

For the purpose of information retrieval and text exploration, digital humanities (DH) scholars have examined the potential of methods such as keyphrase extraction (Hasan and Ng, 2014) and named entity recognition (Nadeau and Sekine, 2007). However, these solutions still face challenges in the presence of polysemy and synonymy (e.g. distinguish between “Paris” the capital of France or the city ...

“Throughout our history, there has been a tension between those who have sought to conserve our natural resources for the benefit of future generations and those who have sought to profit from these resources . . . this is a false choice.With smart, sustainable policies, we can grow our economy today and preserve the environment for ourselves, our children and our grandchildren.” President Bara...

President Barack Obama has concluded that success in Afghanistan depends upon enhanced coordination along the entire range of national power. To achieve this, he has ordered former CIA officer Bruce Riedel, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, and Undersecretary for Defense Policy Michele Flournoy to lead a review of US policy. As they work through the mechanics of military, diplomatic, and developmen...

President Barack Obama has touted his administration's Race to the Top program and its related menu of competitive-grant programs, while promising in the next decade to help the nation produce 100,000 more science and math teachers. Across the aisle, former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts has included, as part of his economic plan, a promise to use federal funds to expand school choice and un...