America at a Crossroads

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, w...

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, w...

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, w...

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, w...

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 201...

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, w...

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, w...

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,...

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....

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 an...

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 countin...

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 i...

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...

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...

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...

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 P...

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...

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...

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 Pea...

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 Kos...