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

Jewish Currents senior reporter Alex Kane will host a conversation with journalist Spencer Ackerman, historian Stephen Wertheim, and civil rights leader Maya Berry on foreign policy and the 2024 presidential election. They will 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 in a time of war, climate catastrophe, refugee crises, and militarized borders.

This event will be held at McNally Jackson Seaport, at 4 Fulton St. in New York, with a livestream option for all Jewish Currents sustaining members. In-person attendance is public with registration required via McNally Jackson, as space is limited. Attendees are asked hold their place with a $5 voucher, redeemable on the night of the event at McNally Jackson on any product in store or in the bar & café. This venue requires stairs to access; McNally Jackson has an enclosed wheelchair lift upon request. We ask that audience members wear a mask to help keep our community safe in an ongoing pandemic. Please reach out to events@jewishcurrents.org with any accessibility questions or concerns.

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Spencer Ackerman is a Pulitzer Prize and National Magazine Award winning national-security reporter, the author of “Reign of Terror: How The War on Terror Destabilized America and Produced Trump,” which won a 2022 American Book Award, and the writer of the newsletter Forever Wars.

Maya Berry is Executive Director of the Arab American Institute (AAI), where she has helped expand AAI’s work on combating hate crime and protecting the rights of securitized communities, and is Co-Chair of the Hate Crime Task Force at the Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights.

Stephen Wertheim is a historian, a Senior Fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy (Harvard, 2020), which explains how the United States decided to pursue global military dominance.

Alex Kane is the senior reporter at Jewish Currents.