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Across the Aisle
IGP’s Across the Aisle series, generously sponsored by Knight Foundation, features discussions between prominent domestic and global leaders with opposing viewpoints, with the goal of modeling for students the possibility for and value of respectful civil discourse, which is presently all too rare in our society.
Richard Clarida, former assistant secretary of the US Treasury for economic policy and IGP Affiliated Faculty member; Abby Joseph Cohen, professor at Columbia Business School and former chief US investment strategist at Goldman Sachs; Ben Harris, vice president and director of the Economic Studies program and director of the Retirement Security Project at Brookings; and Betsey Stevenson, former chief economist of the US Department of Labor, discuss the role of the economy on the US presidential election in this panel moderated by the host of What Next: TBD and contributor to The Atlantic, Lizzie O'Leary.
Eurasia Group president Ian Bremmer, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, and American Enterprise Institute Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies Kori Schake discuss the major foreign policy challenges facing the next US president in this panel moderated by IGP Faculty Scholar and Faculty Advisory Board member Timothy Naftali.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), co-chairs of the bipartisan, bicameral Paid Family Leave Working Group, and professors Jane Waldfogel and Sandra Black, discuss recent bicameral and bipartisan progress on national paid leave policies and the work remaining for the 118th Congress and beyond.
Ambassador Roger Carstens, special presidential envoy for hostage affairs; IGP Inaugural Carnegie Distinguished Fellow Ambassador Robert O’Brien, former national security advisor; Dr. Julia Nesheiwat, former deputy and acting special presidential envoy for hostage affairs; Jason Rezaian, Washington Post columnist; and Academy Award-winning actor and filmmaker Sean Penn discuss hostage diplomacy in a conversation moderated by former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Former White House Chiefs of Staff Ron Klain and Mick Mulvaney discuss experiences in the White House in a discussion moderated by Amna Nawaz, coanchor of PBS NewsHour.
![To kick off the “Across the Aisle” series, Larry Hogan, the Republican former governor of Maryland (at left), joined Kathy Hochul, the Democratic governor of New York (at right). Andrea Mitchell of NBC News moderated. [photo: Shahar Azran]](/sites/igp/files/styles/16_9_637x359/public/2023-10/APPROVED%20across%20the%20aisle%20hogan%20mitchell%20hochul%201131_shahar.jpg.jpeg?itok=DvANnKYQ)
Kathy Hochul, the Democratic governor of New York and Larry Hogan, the Republican former governor of Maryland, discuss the need for more bipartisan consensus on issues like law enforcement, gun rights, and the integrity of voting in a conversation moderated by Andrea Mitchell of NBC News.