ABOUT THE GUESTS
Zack
Beauchamp
Senior Reporter, Vox
Zack Beauchamp is a senior reporter at Vox, where he covers global politics and ideology, and a host of Worldly, Vox’s podcast on covering foreign policy and international relations. His work focuses on the rise of the populist right across the West, the Trump administration’s foreign policy, and how fringe ideologies shape mainstream politics. Before coming to Vox, he edited TP Ideas, a section of Think Progress devoted to the ideas shaping our political world.
Trudy
Rubin
Worldview columnist, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Trudy Rubin is the foreign affairs columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and a member of The Inquirer’s editorial board. Her column runs regularly in many other newspapers around the United States. She is the author of Willful Blindness: The Bush Administration and Iraq. Ms. Rubin has special expertise on the Middle East, South Asia, Russia and Eastern Europe. She appears frequently on radio and television and in recent years has traveled repeatedly to Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Tunisia, Lebanon, Israel, the West Bank, Russia, Ukraine, Western Europe and China.
Thomas
Wright
Director & Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Project on International Order and Strategy, The Brookings Institution
Thomas Wright is the director of the Center on the United States and Europe and a senior fellow in the Project on International Order and Strategy at the Brookings Institution. He is also a nonresident fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. Previously, he was executive director of studies at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, a lecturer at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, and senior researcher for the Princeton Project on National Security.
Phyllis
Bennis
Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies
Phyllis Bennis directs the New Internationalism Project at IPS, working as a writer, activist and analyst on Middle East and UN issues. She is also a fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. In 2001 she helped found and remains active with the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. She works with many anti-war organizations, and writes and speaks widely across the U.S. and around the world as part of the global peace movement. She has served as an informal adviser to several top UN officials on Middle East and UN democratization issues.