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Robert Kagan

Opinion · foreign policy / democracy · @RobertKagan on X

Foreign-policy scholar and Brookings senior fellow who served in the Reagan State Department and advised John McCain's 2008 campaign. He resigned as a Washington Post editor-at-large in October 2024.

Previously: The Washington Post (editor-at-large/contributing columnist), Carnegie Endowment, U.S. State Department

Slant Score · ranked #166 of 175 from most left to most right
16 Right
100 LeftCenter100 Right

Thin record: fewer than a handful of documented items, so this score is pulled toward the center and could move a lot as evidence is added.

The receipts (1)

Partisan job · served the right · +1.5 R · Jan 1, 1984

Reagan State Department speechwriter and policy staff

From 1984 to 1988 Kagan was a speechwriter for Secretary of State George Shultz, served on the Policy Planning Staff, and worked in the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs.

Source: Wikipedia (citing Library of Congress) →
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