Day: April 13, 2025

Briefings

Background Briefing: April 13, 2025

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How to Ruin a Country 

We begin with the weakening and unravelling of America in just a few weeks as the world’s strongest economy is now an international outlier following an exodus of investors from US assets which has driven down the dollar as Brand America faces growing boycotts around the globe. Joining us is Stephen Walt, a columnist at Foreign Policy magazine and the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University. He is the author of a number of books including The Origins of Alliances; Revolution and War; Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy and his latest book is The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy.We discuss his latest article at Foreign Policy magazine, “How to Ruin a Country: A step-by-step guide to Donald Trump’s destruction of U.S. foreign policy.”

 

From a Nation of Immigrants to a Nation of Hate, Xenophobia, Exclusion and Cruelty

Then we examine how America used to be a nation of immigrants but now Trump has turned it into a nation of hate, xenophobia, exclusion and cruelty. Joining us isDr. Manuel Pastor, a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California where he also directs the Equity Research Institute. and co-Director of USC’s Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration. His books include Charging Forward: Lithium Valley, Electric Vehicles, and a Just Future, Just Growth: Inclusion and Prosperity in America’s Metropolitan Regions and Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America’s Future.

 

An Inside Look Into the Fateful Campaign That Brought Back Trump to Finish Off America

Then finally we speak with Chris Whipple, a multiple Peabody and Emmy Award–winning producer at CBS’s 60 Minutes and ABC’s Primetime. He is the author of the New York Times best-seller, The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency, and The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shaped History and the Future. We discuss his inside look into the fateful campaign that brought Trump back to finish the job of ruining  America revealed in his latest book, Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History.