Advertisements For the past four years, far right-wing pro-Israel groups such as the Zionist Organization of America and the Middle East Forum have enjoyed unprecedented influence on the White House. More mainstream pro-Israel groups like AIPAC have still been influential, but less so than in the past as the administrationContinue Reading
Advertisements The biggest foreign policy cabinet appointment remaining to President-elect Joe Biden is the Secretary of Defense. It has been widely speculated that Michele Flournoy is the frontrunner for that position, and she has quickly become a polarizing figure among Democrats. I have already said that I find the debateContinue Reading
Advertisements Joe Biden’s initial cabinet picks should come as a surprise to no one. They are almost entirely people he worked with in the administration of Barack Obama, and that administration was staffed overwhelmingly with centrists who were the epitome of Washington insiders. Most left their government positions and enteredContinue Reading
Advertisements In my latest Rethinking Foreign Policy podcast, I talk about some specific ways progressives need to strategically influence a Biden administration toward a better foreign policy, and the need to strategize about that now, not after the election. With all of our energy understandably focused on securing a JoeContinue Reading
Advertisements One of the reasons that centrist Democrats were desperate to nominate Joe Biden and even more desperate to avoid nominating Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren this year was to secure the support of alienated Republicans. The Lincoln Project, the Never Trumpers and a good number of MSNBC hosts areContinue Reading
