UNDAUNTED: Surviving Jonestown, Summoning Courage, and Fighting Back, by U.S. Congresswoman Jackie Speier, will be published on November 6, 2018—nearly 40 years after the Jonestown massacre that changed her life. UNDAUNTED shares the personal struggles—as a widow, a mother, and an outspoken victim of gun violence—that have shaped Congresswoman Speier’s unwavering dedication to her constituents and to fighting waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption.
The John Brademas Center of New York University, NYU Washington, DC, andRandom House hosted a powerful Salon Series and Big Ideas Night on the impact and meaning of the mid-term election results featuring Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times, and Timothy Naftali, Clinical Associate Professor of History at New York University and a CNN Presidential Historian. James Hohmann, National Political Correspondent for The Washington Post and Author of The Daily 202, served as moderator for the evening.
This discussion, following the midterm elections, will assess what we saw--and didn't see--in those elections. It will also examine foreign influence operations that go beyond elections to undermine other democratic institutions, such as our justice system, and democracy itself. Finally, we will discuss ways to counter this national security threat.
This is a raw video feed. Event begins at 49:12. Edited video will be posted shortly.
The American Conservative’s held its fifth annual foreign-policy conference at The Hart Senate Building on November 15. This year’s conference facilitated a thoughtful provocative conversation about the president’s foreign-affairs strategy—and the effectiveness of its deployment to date. The conference featured a keynote speech from Senator Rand Paul (R-KY). The full day event also included a congressional war powers panel with Representative Ken Buck (R-Colorado) and Representative Ro Khanna (D-California).
The conference which convened an impressive array of policy strategists, and journalists included six panel discussions:
Taking Back Congressional War Powers: Saudi Arabia, Yemen and the AUMF
Taking Back Congressional War Powers: Saudi Arabia, Yemen and the AUMF: A bipartisan discussion about congress’s constitutional responsibility to make and end war.
U.S. Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colorado)
U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-California)
Moderator: Bruce Fein, Constitutional scholar and attorney
Veterans and the Forever War: Recent Vets on Military Reform and US. Foreign Policy
Veterans and the Forever War: Recent vets on Military Reform and U.S. Foreign Policy: Our panelists talk about readiness, the military industrial complex, losing wars, and “thank you for your service.”
Gil Barndollar (Marines), Center for the National Interest
Jeff Groom (Marines), author of Cobra Pilot: A Marine Remembers a Dog and Pony Show
Daniel Davis (Army), Defense Priorities
John Q. Bolton, Active Duty Army Officer
Dan Grazier (Marines), The Center for Defense Information at the Project on Government Oversight (POGO)
Moderator: (Ret.) Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, College of William & Mary, former U.S. Army, State Department
Trump Politics and Foreign Policy Realism: A Media View
Trump Politics and Foreign Policy Realism: A Media View: Newsmakers and writers on how the Trump White House has been navigating his inherited wars, current geopolitical relationships, and competing foreign policy factions at home.
W. James Antle III, The American Conservative
Kelly Jane Torrance, The Weekly Standard
Michael Anton, former Trump White House, Hillsdale College, and Claremont Institute
Moderator: Dan McCarthy, Modern Age, The Fund for American Studies
Middle East (IN) Stability: Telling the Difference Between Friends and Enemies
Middle East (In)Stability: Telling the Difference Between
Friends and Frenemies in the Middle East. A wide range of regional experts talk about current headlines and U.S. policies in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and Israel.
Daniel Larison, The American Conservative
Trita Parsi, National Iranian-American Council founder
Joshua Landis, University of Oklahoma
Paul Pillar, Georgetown University
Abbas Kadhim, SAIS-Johns Hopkins University
Moderator: Kelley Beaucar Vlahos, The American Conservative
The Future of Asian Power Politics: Is Trump Gaining or Losing Ground for the U.S.?
The Future Asian Power Politics: Is Trump Gaining or Losing Ground for the U.S.? Foreign policy and national security experts debate the China threat, North Korea denuclearization, Japanese self-defense, and Trump’s trade war.
Doug Bandow, Cato Institute
Harry Kazianis, Center for The National Interest
(Ret.) Col. Doug Macgregor, author and commentator
Moderator: Benjamin Friedman, George Washington University
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