Sarah Longwell, a Republican political strategist, is the founder and
producer of The Bulwark, a conservative anti-Trump news and opinion
website launched in 2018. Together with Bill Kristol and Charlie Sykes,
Sarah has consistently presented outstanding podcasts, programming and
articles for Republican never-Trumpers, a movement which Longwell
helped to form and continues to lead. Longwell is the founder of
Republican Voters Against Trump, which spent millions of dollars to defeat
then-President Donald Trump in 2020. She also heads Republicans for the
Rule of Law which advocated for the impeachment and removal of Trump
in 2019. Sarah Longwell, and The Bulwark continue to pursue their
mission of warning of the dangers to our democracy posed by MAGA and
Trump.

Simon Rosenberg is a highly regarded Democratic political strategist and
commentator with more than 3 decades of experience in national politics
and television news. He has built a new home for his political analysis,
commentary, and live political discussions at Hopium Chronicles, an
engaging new project on the Substack media platform. In 2022 Rosenberg
was the single political analyst who refuted the notion that the 2022 election
would result in a “red wave”…and he got it right.

Simon and Sarah were guests on America at a Crossroads in December,
2023 looking ahead to the 2024 elections. Now that the 2024 elections are
upon us, we have asked them to return to take A Close(r)Look at the
2024 Elections. It will be fun, exciting and informative. Moderated by
LAists’ Larry Mantle

Gidi Grinstein has spent most of his career promoting Israeli-Palestinian
and regional peace in the Middle East. In his recent book (In)Sights:
Peacemaking in the Oslo Process thirty Years and Counting, Grinstein
illuminates systemic issues relating to the failed efforts to arrive at a two-
state solution. Ambassador Dennis Ross, a frequent guest on America at a
Crossroads, and longtime US Special Middle East Coordinator, described
(in)Sights as the single best book on understanding the issues …
illuminating new dimensions” and said it was an “essential [read] for future
US peace intervention.”

Since October 7, America at a Crossroads has invited a variety of veteran
diplomats, journalists, and scholars to provide occasional briefings about
the situation in the Middle East, focusing on the hostages, the Gaza War,
and on US engagement and diplomacy in the region.

On September 16, Gidi Grinstein, a foremost expert on Israeli-Palestinian
relations, the Oslo Process and the Permanent Status Agreement, will be
joining America at a Crossroads to provide our 17 th Israel in Crisis a briefing
since the heinous attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023.

Grinstein will discuss the status and progress of hostage and cease fire
negotiations and his views on what the future holds in terms of Israeli
Palestinian relations.

Since October 7, America at a Crossroads has invited a variety of veteran
diplomats, journalists, and scholars to provide occasional briefings about
the situation in the Middle East, focusing on the hostages, the Gaza War,
and on US engagement and diplomacy in the region.
On September 12, expert Middle East analyst Aaron David Miller, a senior
fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a
commentator on the subject for CNN, MSNBC and Bloomberg will be
joining America at a Crossroads to provide our 16 th Israel in Crisis a briefing
since the heinous attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023.
Miller spent 24 years working with and often leading the Middle East team
at the US Department of State. He has advised both Democratic and
Republican presidents and secretaries of state and has participated in
American efforts to broker agreements between Israel, Jordan, Syria and
the Palestinians.
Miller will discuss the status and progress of hostage and cease fire
negotiations.

The severe uptick in antisemitic and anti-Israel incidents on college
campuses since the October 7 Hamas massacre in Israel has been widely
documented. In late 2023, Stanford University’s President appointed our
America at a Crossroads guests, Larry Diamond, a senior fellow both at
Stanford’s Hoover Institution and at the Freeman Spogli Institute for
International Studies and Professor Jeffrey Kosseff, to co-chair a
Committee to study antisemitism and anti-Israel bias on campus. The
Committee conducted more than 50 different listening sessions and as
many individual interviews; hundreds of undergraduates, graduate
students, faculty, staff, alumni, and parents participated. The Committee
issued a Report that they found widespread and pernicious antisemitism as
well as a failure on the part of the University to respond to complaints. This
program reviews the findings contained in the Stanford Report and the
speakers discuss similar findings on other campuses. A key element of the
Committee’s work was to make recommendations as to what must be done
to address this serious and growing problem.