Elaine Kamarck, senior fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings and founding director of the Center for Effective Public Management, reflects on inauguration day, on the difficult presidential transition and the violence of January 6th, and the outlook for impeachment of the former president and President Biden’s agenda.
Also on this episode, George Ingram, senior fellow in Global Economy and Development, delivers a new Sustainable Development Spotlight on how the new Biden-Harris administration can reengage the U.S. in global leadership in a world where the idea of American exceptionalism has been seriously eroded. Listen to this audio on SoundCloud.
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“The Hill We Climb,” inauguration poem by Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman
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PodcastBiden’s inauguration, Trump’s impeachment, and the politics ahead
January 22, 2021