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Casting Kamala’s Fantasy Cabinet

Despite Harris’s lack of a national security platform, Democrats are entering a new phase of feverish speculation surrounding who might be tapped to create, and execute, her foreign policy agenda.

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In the absence of Harris rolling out some version of national security policy proposals, the key to determining where a President Harris would take American foreign policy will be the people she appoints to these jobs. Photo: Jeff Kowalsky/AFP
Julia Ioffe
August 20, 2024

As the Democratic Party poohbahs convene in Chicago to ratify the historical changes at the top of their ticket, behind the scenes, a very D.C. parlor game is playing out: If she wins the presidency, what will Kamala Harris’s foreign policy look like, and whom will she appoint to implement it?