Bipartisan Empire: Foreign Policy, Regional War, and the 2024 Election

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Bipartisan Empire: Foreign Policy, Regional War, and the 2024 Election

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November 5, 2024

On this special episode of On the Nose—recorded live on November 4th at McNally Jackson Books in Manhattan—Jewish Currents senior reporter Alex Kane hosts a discussion about foreign policy and the 2024 presidential election. Historian Stephen Wertheim, Arab American Institute executive director Maya Berry, and national security reporter Spencer Ackerman discuss Donald Trump’s and Kamala Harris’s foreign policy visions, regional war in the Middle East, and the bipartisan consensus on upholding US empire.

Thanks to Jesse Brenneman for producing and to Nathan Salsburg for the use of his song “VIII (All That Were Calculated Have Passed).”

Transcript forthcoming.

Further Reading:

“Some Muslim Americans moving to Jill Stein in potential blow to Kamala Harris,” Andrea Shalal, Reuters

“New Poll Finds Arab American Voters Evenly Divided in the 2024 Presidential Election,” Arab American Institute

Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump by Spencer Ackerman

“How Kamala Harris Should Put America First — for Real,” Stephen Werheim, The New York Times

“America’s Foreign Policy Inertia,” Stephen Wertheim and Christopher S. Chivvis, Foreign Affairs

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