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The Election is Over: What Do the Results Mean for Ukraine, the Middle East, and U.S. Foreign Policy?
MICHAEL McFAUL served for five years in the Obama administration, first as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council at the White House (2009-2012), and then as U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation from 2012 to 2014. He is Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, where he serves as Director and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
LARRY DIAMOND is an American political sociologist and leading contemporary scholar in the field of democracy studies. Diamond is a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. -
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America stands at a pivotal crossroads.
With serious threats to America’s democracy posed by nationalists, populists and other non-democratic candidates and forces, America at a Crossroads has offered weekly programming continuously since 2020 to encourage activism and passion to combat these threats to our American democracy.
Through our weekly virtual town hall series, America at a Crossroads, we focus on combating authoritarianism and preserving American democracy. -
America stands at a pivotal crossroads.
With serious threats to America’s democracy posed by nationalists, populists and other non-democratic candidates and forces, America at a Crossroads has offered weekly programming continuously since 2020 to encourage activism and passion to combat these threats to our American democracy.
Through our weekly virtual town hall series, America at a Crossroads, we focus on combating authoritarianism and preserving American democracy.
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Jennifer Rubin is an American political commentator who writes opinion columns for The Washing Post. Previously she worked at Commentary, PJ Media, Human Events, and The Weekly Standard. Her work has been published in media outlets including Politico, New York Post, New York Daily News, National Review, and The Jerusalem Post. A conservative political commentator throughout most of her career, she became a vocal critic of President Donald Trump and in September 2020, she announced that she no longer identified as a conservative.
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During this America at a Crossroads program, Patt Morrison, veteran LA Times
columnist and winner of a Pulitzer, many Golden Mikes and multiple Emmy
Awards, will engage January 6 Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn in conversation
about the January 6 insurrection. Dunn has been one of the most prominent and
essential voices regarding the truth of what happened in and around the Capitol
on January 6.
Harry Anthony Dunn served in the United States Capitol Police and was one of many police officers present during the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. During the attack, Dunn was stationed outside the Capitol. Once the Capitol was breached, Dunn was called inside to guard a stairwell with injured officers and to guard Speaker Pelosi’s office. He interacted with rioters extensively that day. Officer Dunn testified in front of the House Select January 6 Committee. He also testified at the 2022 trial of the Oath Keepers for seditious conspiracy for their actions relating to the Capitol attack. Dunn’s heroic conduct on January 6 earned him a Congressional Gold Medal.
Officer Dunn recently wrote a NY Times best-selling memoir entitled Standing My
Ground which has been called a “must-read.”
This is sure to be a stimulating and informative hour intended to provide insight into the insurrection from the perspective of someone whose fists were bloodied and whose life was threatened on that dark day. -
This America at a Crossroads program will feature Ron Brownstein,
one of the country’s foremost political journalists and analysts, in
conversation with award winning veteran NPR-affiliate LAist radio talk
show journalist, Larry Mantle. With less than 4 weeks before election
day, the program will focus on up-to-the-minute current events related
to Election 2024.
Brownstein is a senior political analyst for CNN and a senior editor at
The Atlantic. He is a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his
coverage of presidential campaigns and the author or editor of seven
books.
There may be no political pundit with greater insight, depth of
experience, and knowledge about all aspects of the current election
than Ron Brownstein. He is conversant with the nuances of polls and
the voting practices of rural as well we urban Americans—from the
smallest American town to the largest American cities. It will be a
highly informative as well as entertaining hour—we promise! -
RICK HASEN is one of the country’s foremost experts on American
election law, campaign finance, voting rights, voter suppression, and
transitions of power. In conversation with the highly awarded
broadcast journalist Warren Olney, Rick will provide his analysis on
the state of the current election with emphasis on efforts at voter
suppression, legal cases impacting on voting rights, ballot counting,
and challenges to election outcomes. Warren and Rick will discuss
the prospects of a repeat of the events of the attack on the Capitol on
January 6, 2021.
RICK HASEN is a professor of Law at UCLA Law and the Director of
UCLA Law’s Safeguarding Democracy Project. He was a founding
editor of the quarterly Election Law Journal, a peer reviewed
publication on election law. He runs Election Law Blog and is the
author of 6 critically reviewed books including A Real Right to Vote:
How a Constitutional Amendment can Safeguard American
Democracy.
Warren Olney was the host and executive producer of the naitonall
syndicated weekday afternoon program “To The Point.” He has been
honored with nearly 40 awards for his work. -
BOB SHRUM AND MICHAEL MURPHY are arguably amongst the most
respected and experienced political analysts and pundits of our time.
Both have extensive experience working on numerous presidential
campaigns over the past many decades. In conversation with Patt
Morrison of the LA Times, who has won the Pulitzer, six Emmys and a
dozen Golden Mike awards, Bob and Mike will share their honest and
always insightful thoughts and predictions about the upcoming
elections.
Bob, a Democratic consultant, consulted to the George McGovern,
Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, to the Gore-Lieberman and Kerry-Edwards
campaigns. He strategized 30 winning Senate campaigns, 8 winning
gubernatorial campaigns, and for scores of winning mayoral
campaigns in every major city in America. Currently, Bob is the
Director of the Center for the Political Future and the Carmen H. and
Louis Warschaw Chair in Practical Politics at the University of
Southern California (USC).
Mike, a Republican consultant, consulted to John McCain, Mitt
Romney, Jeb Bush, Tommy Thompson, Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Christie Whitman, and many more at all levels of government. Mike, a
vocal critic of MAGA and Donald Trump, is Co-Director of the USC
Center for the Political Future. -
Aside from being America’s most prolific, acclaimed, and respected
documentary film maker, Ken Burns is an astute observer of
American political life, both past and present. Known for his dogged
commitment to pursuing the truth through locating and uncovering
primary source documents, Ken Burns has had dramatic influence
not only as the greatest documentarian of the day, but also as an
influential thinker and analyst of American life.
In this America at a Crossroads program Pulitzer Prize winning writer,
columnist and broadcast journalist, Patt Morrison, will engage with
Ken Burns, the country’s greatest filmmaker and popular historian,
about the current state of American life, politics and where, through
his special lens, he sees America headed. -
Since 2011, Aluf Benn has been the Editor in Chief of Haaretz, the
longest running newspaper currently in print in Israel. Haaretz,
founded in 1918, describes itself as “an independent daily newspaper
with a broadly liberal outlook both on domestic issues and on
international affairs.” Aluf Benn holds an MBA degree from the
Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and a
degree from Tel Aviv University. At Haaretz, Benn has served as an
investigative reporter and head of the news division. His articles have
been published in a variety of international newspapers, including the
NY Times, The Guardian, Foreign Affairs and Newsweek. He is a
highly respected journalist and an astute observer and analyst of the
war in Gaza, of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, and the broader politics
of the Middle East.
Benn will be in conversation with award winning NPR broadcast
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This program features the dynamic duo of two renowned journalists
who have covered national politics, elections and presidencies for
decades. They will be discussing their observations and analysis of
the 2024 Elections in conversation with Madeleine Brand of NPR’s
affiliate KCRW.
Peter Baker is the chief White House correspondent for The New York
Times and a political analyst for MSNBC Baker has covered five
presidencies: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald J.
Trump and now Joe Biden. There are few reporters who are more
conversant than Peter Baker with presidencies and presidential politics
Susan Glasser has served as the top editor of several Washington
publications, including Politico, where she founded the award-
winning Politico Magazine, and Foreign Policy, which won three National
Magazine Awards, among other honors, during her tenure as editor in
chief. Previously, she worked at the Washington Post as editor for national
news and oversaw coverage of the impeachment of Bill Clinton, served as
a reporter covering the intersection of money and politics, spent four years
as the Post’s Moscow co-bureau chief, and covered the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan. She edited Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper, early in her
career. -
The featured speakers for this program, Dana Stroul and Michael Singh,
both previously advised American presidents and secretaries of state on
the Middle East. They are now on the faculty of The Washington Institute
(TWI), for Near East Policy, a pro-Israel American think tank based in
Washington, D.C., focused on the foreign policy of the United States in the
Near East.
Dana Stroul served under President Biden as Deputy Assistant Secretary
of Defense for the Middle East, the pentagon’s top civilian official with
responsibility for the region. Currently, Stroul is Director of Research and
Senior Fellow of TWI.
Michael Singh was Senior Director for Middle East Affairs in the President
George W. Bush White House; prior to that position Singh was a director on
the National security Council staff and served as special assistant to
Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice. Currently, sing is
a Managing Director and Senior Fellow at TWI.
Stroul and Singh will discuss the current war in Gaza and the broader
question of Israel-Palestinian relations and prospects for peace. They will
be in conversation with award winning broadcast journalist Warren Olney. -
Sarah Longwell, a Republican political strategist, is the founder and
producer of The Bulwark, a conservative anti-Trump news and opinion
website launched in 2018. Together with Bill Kristol and Charlie Sykes,
Sarah has consistently presented outstanding podcasts, programming and
articles for Republican never-Trumpers, a movement which Longwell
helped to form and continues to lead. Longwell is the founder of
Republican Voters Against Trump, which spent millions of dollars to defeat
then-President Donald Trump in 2020. She also heads Republicans for the
Rule of Law which advocated for the impeachment and removal of Trump
in 2019. Sarah Longwell, and The Bulwark continue to pursue their
mission of warning of the dangers to our democracy posed by MAGA and
Trump.
Simon Rosenberg is a highly regarded Democratic political strategist and
commentator with more than 3 decades of experience in national politics
and television news. He has built a new home for his political analysis,
commentary, and live political discussions at Hopium Chronicles, an
engaging new project on the Substack media platform. In 2022 Rosenberg
was the single political analyst who refuted the notion that the 2022 election
would result in a “red wave”…and he got it right.
Simon and Sarah were guests on America at a Crossroads in December,
2023 looking ahead to the 2024 elections. Now that the 2024 elections are
upon us, we have asked them to return to take A Close(r)Look at the
2024 Elections. It will be fun, exciting and informative. Moderated by
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Gidi Grinstein has spent most of his career promoting Israeli-Palestinian
and regional peace in the Middle East. In his recent book (In)Sights:
Peacemaking in the Oslo Process thirty Years and Counting, Grinstein
illuminates systemic issues relating to the failed efforts to arrive at a two-
state solution. Ambassador Dennis Ross, a frequent guest on America at a
Crossroads, and longtime US Special Middle East Coordinator, described
(in)Sights as the single best book on understanding the issues …
illuminating new dimensions” and said it was an “essential [read] for future
US peace intervention.”
Since October 7, America at a Crossroads has invited a variety of veteran
diplomats, journalists, and scholars to provide occasional briefings about
the situation in the Middle East, focusing on the hostages, the Gaza War,
and on US engagement and diplomacy in the region.
On September 16, Gidi Grinstein, a foremost expert on Israeli-Palestinian
relations, the Oslo Process and the Permanent Status Agreement, will be
joining America at a Crossroads to provide our 17 th Israel in Crisis a briefing
since the heinous attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023.
Grinstein will discuss the status and progress of hostage and cease fire
negotiations and his views on what the future holds in terms of Israeli
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Since October 7, America at a Crossroads has invited a variety of veteran
diplomats, journalists, and scholars to provide occasional briefings about
the situation in the Middle East, focusing on the hostages, the Gaza War,
and on US engagement and diplomacy in the region.
On September 12, expert Middle East analyst Aaron David Miller, a senior
fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a
commentator on the subject for CNN, MSNBC and Bloomberg will be
joining America at a Crossroads to provide our 16 th Israel in Crisis a briefing
since the heinous attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023.
Miller spent 24 years working with and often leading the Middle East team
at the US Department of State. He has advised both Democratic and
Republican presidents and secretaries of state and has participated in
American efforts to broker agreements between Israel, Jordan, Syria and
the Palestinians.
Miller will discuss the status and progress of hostage and cease fire
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The severe uptick in antisemitic and anti-Israel incidents on college
campuses since the October 7 Hamas massacre in Israel has been widely
documented. In late 2023, Stanford University’s President appointed our
America at a Crossroads guests, Larry Diamond, a senior fellow both at
Stanford’s Hoover Institution and at the Freeman Spogli Institute for
International Studies and Professor Jeffrey Kosseff, to co-chair a
Committee to study antisemitism and anti-Israel bias on campus. The
Committee conducted more than 50 different listening sessions and as
many individual interviews; hundreds of undergraduates, graduate
students, faculty, staff, alumni, and parents participated. The Committee
issued a Report that they found widespread and pernicious antisemitism as
well as a failure on the part of the University to respond to complaints. This
program reviews the findings contained in the Stanford Report and the
speakers discuss similar findings on other campuses. A key element of the
Committee’s work was to make recommendations as to what must be done
to address this serious and growing problem. - Visa fler
