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The Treaty of Harris

In the wake of Biden’s departure from the race, the foreign policy crowd is experiencing all the feels—jubilation, resentment, excitement, agony, and the sense that “the chessboard is empty” with Harris atop the ticket. Plus, the view from the Kremlin on the new Democratic nominee (and, for what it’s worth, J.D. Vance).

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Harris wouldn’t be coming into the White House with the same fully formed, instinctual policy ideas as Biden did in January 2021, but she’s learned a lot in the last three and a half years. Photo: Michael Buholzer/Pool/AFP/Getty Images
Julia Ioffe
July 24, 2024

Though it feels like years have passed since, just a few days ago, I was in Aspen at the Security Forum, where all anyone wanted to talk about was Joe Biden and whether and when he’d drop out of the race. People were frustrated that the panels were still about things like drone warfare in Ukraine and the Global South when it seemed like the sky was falling right here at home. “How hard is it to say ‘constitutional crisis’?!” one participant fumed.