FILE PHOTO: Tear gas is released into a crowd of protesters, with one wielding a Confederate battle flag that reads "Come and Take It," during clashes with Capitol police at a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
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Coming up on Washington Week with The Atlantic:
Elections, Court Dates & Culture Wars: 2024 is shaping up to be a particularly busy and consequential presidential election year.
On Friday, a day before the third anniversary of the January 6th insurrection, President Biden is set to deliver his first speech of the new year in battleground Pennsylvania, and plans to warn voters of what’s at stake this November. His likely Republican opponent, former president Donald Trump, is meanwhile hitting the campaign trail in Iowa to cement his lead before the caucuses, while juggling several legal cases against him.
And, while Democrats are attempting to motivate voters over access to abortion, Republicans are seizing on campus speech and DEI initiatives as the next front of the culture war, in the wake of Claudine Gay’s resignation as president of Harvard on Tuesday.
Joining moderator Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic, to discuss this and more:
- Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent, The New York Times
- Laura Barron-Lopez, White House Correspondent, PBS NewsHour
- Josh Dawsey, political enterprise and investigations reporter, The Washington Post
- Jerusalem Demsas, staff writer, The Atlantic
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