Today’s podcast guest is Aaron David Miller, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Between 1978 and 2003, he served at the State Department as an historian, analyst, negotiator, and advisor to Republican and Democratic secretaries of state, where he helped formulate U.S. policy on the Middle East and the Arab-Israel peace process, most recently as the senior advisor for Arab-Israeli negotiations.
In this episode, we discuss the current state of Israeli-Palestinian affairs and what the prospects are for peace, including regionally, what we may see from the upcoming elections in Israel, the current status of the Iran war and its implications for the region, the Gulf states’ concerns about their security in the war’s aftermath, Israel’s gains and losses from the war, and the state of US foreign policy under Trump toward the region.
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The MAGA base has entered a new social contract, not with the Constitution but with Trump himself as sovereign, trading liberty and truth for the security of belonging to his camp. The horror is precisely that the destruction of American democracy is being carried out not only by a “madman” but by ordinary functionaries who know better and choose not to act.
Child sex trafficking is not just another societal problem waiting for legislative tinkering or bureaucratic reform. It is a moral outrage—a fundamental rupture in the ethical fabric of our world. The measure of our humanity will be taken not by how we treat the powerful, the wealthy, or the competent, but by how fiercely we protect those who cannot protect themselves.
Today’s podcast guest is Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Fellow for the Middle East at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Previously, he worked as senior Gulf analyst at the Gulf Center for Strategic Studies and as codirector of the Kuwait Program on Development, Governance and Globalization in the Gulf States at the London School of Economics.
In this episode, we discuss the still-ongoing war on Iran, the impact the war has had on the Gulf States, Trump’s ability or failure to negotiate an end to the conflict, and whether or not we may see further escalation of the conflict.
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On September 14, the Supreme Court refused to let the Postal Service enforce Trump's mail-ballot rule, and the ballots will move. But read the fine print: the justices did not hold the scheme unconstitutional, only that it came too late to impose this year. Kavanaugh all but invited its return.
The scheme itself is not in dispute. An executive order policing ballots through the Postal Service. Federal citizenship lists. Threats to prosecute election officials. Fabricated fraud claims to justify it all. And Republican legislatures redrawing congressional maps mid-decade, carving up communities to manufacture seats no voter granted them.
This is not a policy disagreement. It is a president who cannot win a fair contest trying to rig an unfair one, treating the machinery of American self-government as his private property.
One court order is not accountability. Trump must be beaten decisively at the polls and made to pay for what he has done to this republic.
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Voting blue here early
💙BLUE WAVE COMIN💙
Love post like this. Makes me want to vote red for sure
In 8 days....early voting starts in my state and.... we fix Congress. Vote Blue and take back our country. Yes ... there is something you can do.
Trump- best president ever who fights for Americans!
Vote BLUE 💙💙 in November. Save America First!!! Save our Constitution!!! Stop the corruption!!!
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not quite. now TRUMP can declare a national emergency to deal with you domestic US enemies. SCOTUS is cooperating not impeding.
We the people........will prevail in 2028!!! President Donald J Trump, Commander in Chief!!!! 2nd amendment & MAGA will continue to restore glory to OUR nation!!
Trump is cleaning up the messes the democrats caused and pass the SAVE ACT
VOTE VOTE VOTE. Go early. Do it in person. Make the effort. Walk, drive, hitch hike, ride a bicycle, take the bus, bum a ride from a friend, take an Uber or a Lyft. Just fu*king get there. Our country depends on it. Vote like your lives depend on it. Because they do. Trump and his ilk are destroying OUR country, it's time to take it back. If you're not part of the solution by voting them out then you are still part of the problem. WAKE UP AMERICA!!!
dems destroyed their own party so bad Biden opened the border to get a new illegal voter base
What has he done that is bad?
A devastating price and I hope he lives long enough to see it erode away, maybe from a prison cell
Vote blue save American from evil cult people in government
Today’s podcast guest is Aaron David Miller, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Between 1978 and 2003, he served at the State Department as an historian, analyst, negotiator, and advisor to Republican and Democratic secretaries of state, where he helped formulate U.S. policy on the Middle East and the Arab-Israel peace process, most recently as the senior advisor for Arab-Israeli negotiations.
In this episode, we discuss the current state of Israeli-Palestinian affairs and what the prospects are for peace, including regionally, what we may see from the upcoming elections in Israel, the current status of the Iran war and its implications for the region, the Gulf states’ concerns about their security in the war’s aftermath, Israel’s gains and losses from the war, and the state of US foreign policy under Trump toward the region.
Listen now: soundcloud.com/alon-ben-meir/on-the-issues-episode-166-aaron-david-miller
Full bio
Aaron David Miller is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, focusing on U.S. foreign policy. He has written five books, including his most recent, The End of Greatness: Why America Can’t Have (and Doesn’t Want) Another Great President (Palgrave, 2014) and The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace (Bantam, 2008), and hosts Carnegie Connects, Carnegie’s premier live podcast. He received his PhD in Middle East and U.S. diplomatic history from the University of Michigan in 1977.
Between 1978 and 2003, Miller served at the State Department as an historian, analyst, negotiator, and advisor to Republican and Democratic secretaries of state, where he helped formulate U.S. policy on the Middle East and the Arab-Israel peace process, most recently as the senior advisor for Arab-Israeli negotiations. He also served as the deputy special Middle East coordinator for Arab-Israeli negotiations, senior member of the State Department’s policy planning staff, in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, and in the office of the historian. He has received the department’s Distinguished, Superior, and Meritorious Honor Awards.
Miller is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and formerly served as resident scholar at the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies. He has been a featured presenter at the World Economic Forum and leading U.S. universities. Between 2003 and 2006 he served as president of Seeds of Peace, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering young leaders from regions of conflict with the leadership skills required to advance reconciliation and coexistence. From 2006 to 2019, Miller was a public policy scholar; vice president for new initiatives, and director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Miller’s articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, Foreign Policy, and Foreign Affairs. He is a frequent commentator on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, BBC, and Sirius XM radio.
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Tensions are again rising in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, threatening the fragile peace established by the 2022 Pretoria agreement. Ethiopia’s federal government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front have accused each other of military mobilization, while disputes over territory, displacement and disarmament remain unresolved. Heavy fighting in August reportedly included artillery and drone strikes. Human Rights Watch has also documented abuses against Tigrayans and forced recruitment by the TPLF, including children as young as 15. The warning signs are unmistakable. After the devastating 2020–2022 war, allowing tensions to escalate again would be catastrophic for civilians. The African Union helped broker the peace; now it must demonstrate that early warning can lead to early action.
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For 25 years, Australia has defended offshore detention as border control. The human cost tells another story. More than 5,000 asylum seekers have been transferred to Nauru and Papua New Guinea since 2001, where Human Rights Watch has documented inhumane conditions and serious physical and psychological harm. At least 14 people have died in the offshore system since 2012. A democracy cannot separate immigration policy from human rights. Deterrence does not justify subjecting people seeking refuge to prolonged suffering or shifting responsibility to poorer countries. Twenty-five years is long enough to judge this policy by its consequences. Australia should end offshore detention and ensure humane treatment and lasting solutions for those affected.
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