On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Matt Duss on how the Biden administration keeps adding fuel to the fire.
President Joe Biden speaks at a news conference during the NATO Summit in Washington, DC, on July 11, 2024. (Graeme Sloan / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Jeet Heer is joined by Matt Duss, a seasoned foreign policy analyst at the Center for International Policy, to discuss how the Biden administration keeps adding fuel to the fire.
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The Israeli incursion into Lebanon has rapidly shifted from a bombing campaign into a ground invasion, one that the Pentagon now says might last for some time. This current escalation of the Middle Eastern conflict, which has also seen Iran and Israel trade blows, reflects the wider failure of Joe Biden’s bear-hug foreign policy. To discuss the conflict and also the prospect for change under a Kamala Harris presidency, I talked to Matt Duss, a seasoned foreign policy analyst at the Center for International Policy.
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As negotiations proceed in ending the Iran War, the question of the relationship between the US
and Israel becomes more salient. I spoke with Middle East expert Yousef Munayyer on the
agenda of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose interest in a securing his country’s
hegemony in the region is now in conflict with efforts to end the war.
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Jeet HeerTwitterJeet Heer is a national affairs correspondent for The Nation and host of the weekly Nation podcast, The Time of Monsters. He also pens the monthly column “Morbid Symptoms.” The author of In Love with Art: Francoise Mouly’s Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman (2013) and Sweet Lechery: Reviews, Essays and Profiles (2014), Heer has written for numerous publications, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The American Prospect, The Guardian, The New Republic, and The Boston Globe.