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Draws on popular culture in the form of two movies & a TV series to shed light on the US psyche when it comes to presidential politics & the prospect of a female president. Critical analyses of the films Kisses for My President (1964) & The Contender (2000), & the TV series Commander in Chief (2005/06) are provided, asserting that each casts women as inappropriate for the presidency. These portrayals are briefly set against what is termed the far more comfortable depiction of the male president in the series The West Wing, & it is concluded that the female portrayals spring from worn out cliches & evince nothing of the creativity required to present a genuine picture of the world of a female president. Adapted from the source document.

If a vice president dies, resigns, is removed, or his position is otherwise vacated, and if Congress is out of session, does the president have the authority to fill the vacancy through a recess appointment, or is his only means of installing a new vice president through the bicameral confirmation process under the Twenty‐Fifth Amendment? This article evaluates this novel constitutional question, which is important in light of the vice presidency's increased prominence in recent years, the expansion of presidential recess appointment power over the course of the nation's history, and the greater frequency with which presidents have carried out these unilateral actions in past decades. While arguments in favor of the president cannot be dismissed out of hand, ultimately it must be concluded that he lacks such power.

Argues that, in spite of vows to heal domestic wounds & salvage America's reputation abroad, no meaningful change has occurred since the election of President Barack Obama. An analysis of US policy towards Israel, Iraq, & Iran indicates that Obama has pursued the same course as a steward of the American Empire that was taken by George W. Bush. Russia's occupation of Afghanistan is compared with the current "Just War" in that country & Pakistan, which has created the integrated war zone called "Afpak." Obama's escalation of the War on Terror is pointed out, along with the continuation of torture & domestic wiretapping; & the establishment of new military bases in Colombia. However, even though there has been no substantive difference in American imperialism, there has been a significant upgrade "propagandistically" due to Obama's mastery of uplifting orations about America's glowing mission in the world. Obama is called a "hand-me-down version of Woodrow Wilson" whose style is marked for its "sonorous banality & armor-plated hypocrisy.". Adapted from the source document.