On this episode of American Prestige, Derek speaks with Elizabeth Shackelford, former U.S. diplomat and current foreign affairs columnist for The Chicago Tribune, about U.S. involvement across Africa. They talk about Elizabeth’s own history in Somalia and South Sudan, America’s understanding of the places in which it’s involved, the generational timeline needed to change the trajectory of foreign policy, where the securitized view of Africa began, how the U.S. has approached places like Burkina Faso and Cameroon, and what a better U.S. policy in Africa might look like.
Elizabeth’s report with Ethan Kessler and Emma Sanderson, “Less is More: A New Strategy for US Security Assistance to Africa”.
Elizabeth’s book The Dissent Channel: American Diplomacy in a Dishonest Age.
Start Making Sense: Cornel West Should Run as a Democrat, plus Supreme Court Wins and Losses
Edge of Sports: Solomon Hughes on playing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 'Winning Time’
Time of Monsters: Moms For Liberty and Its Media Apologists
Elie Mystal's Court Packing Plan | Contempt of Court
Edge of Sports: 1968 Olympian Dr. John Carlos on the Legacy of the Black Athletic Revolt
Start Making Sense: Summer of Strikes, plus After Affirmative Action: Jane McAlevy on Labor, John Nichols on Education
Time of Monsters: Moira Donegan on the Reactionary Vision of the Supreme Court
Packing the Court! | Contempt of Court with Elie Mystal
Start Making Sense: The Battle on the Abortion Borderland, plus RFK Jr.
Edge of Sports: Aaron Maybin: "Athletes aren't superheroes, we're human beings"
Time of Monsters: The State of the Left in Chile, El Salvador and Nicaragua
Welcome to Contempt of Court with Elie Mystal!
Start Making Sense: How Democrats can win Working-Class Voters; how Doctors are Fighting—against Hospitals
Edge of Sports: W. Kamau Bell, the reluctant optimist
Time of Monsters: Establishment Economics Under Siege
Start Making Sense: Cornel West Should Not Be Running for President; plus the GOP vs. Divorce
Pat Robertson’s Terrible Legacy
Start Making Sense: The Far Right’s Takeover of Shasta County, plus the Enslaved Black Family: Sasha Abramsky on politics, Brenda Stevenson on history
Time of Monsters: Car Dealers Versus Electric Vehicles
Start Making Sense: D.D. Guttenplan on Biden and the Vision Thing; plus Disappearing Islands
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