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Kathleen Hall Jamieson

The World

Dissecting the war metaphors and messaging in president’s speech

Global Politics

With the help of Kathleen Hall Jamieson, professor of communications and director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, we take a look at President Obama’s Oval Office speech from last night.

The RNC Versus CNN and NBC

As campaigns heat up, negative rhetoric reaches a new low

Global Politics

Romney campaign shifts, declares that health care mandate is a tax

Global Politics

President’s team tries to embrace the term ‘Obamacare’

Global Politics

Republicans running deceptive attack ads, slamming each other

Global Politics

A Super PAC that’s backing Mitt Romney is airing an attack ad that a public policy professor says is beyond misleading. But Rick Santorum, the target of that ad, has responded with his own attack ad that also stretches the truth.

Super PACs making a difference in 2012 primary elections

Global Politics

As voters in New Hampshire cast ballots, they’re being inundated with advertising that seems to support one candidate or another, but which is actually paid for by “independent” Super PACs, political groups that can raise and spend virtually unlimited amounts of cash on political issues.

Obama urges compromise in debt talks

Global Politics

President Obama pleaded with Congress to come to an agreement on debt talks in his speech to the American public on Monday.

Health care as a human right

Global Politics

Exploring whether or not affordable health care can be considered a fundamental human right.

Campaign Slogans from This Moment Forward

Presidential campaign slogans: we’ve come to know them, love them, loathe them, and in some cases, completely forget them.  Some slogans, like Warren G. Harding’s “Cox and Cocktails,” sound perplexing in hindsight. Others, like Jimmy Carter’s “Not Just Peanuts” slogan, seem sweetly naïve thirty years later.  And then there’s President Obama’s new slogan, simply “Forward.” What does […]