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If she was looking for a quiet night on the town, she must have been wildly disappointed.

Hillary Clinton received a standing ovation as she and former President Bill Clinton made their way to their seats for a performance of the Tony Award-winning play Osloin New York City on Sunday night.

The former secretary of state and presidential candidate was quietly walking down the aisle when audience members caught sight of her and broke out into applause and cheers.

We love you, Hillary! several people were heard shouting as others began chanting her first name.

With what appeared to be the entire house on its feet, Clinton turned to wave at her supporters as her husband reached her side.

It was far from the first such welcome received by the former first lady and New York senator since she conceded the presidential election to Donald Trump. She has been met with similar receptions while attending other Broadway productions, including Sunset Boulevard, In Transit and The Color Purple.

In contrast, Vice President Mike Pence was booed by audience members at a performance of Hamilton, shortly after Trumps election win.

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Joint Chiefs of StaffA new study attributes Donald Trump's victory last year to communities hit hardest by military casualties and angry about being ignored. These voters, the authors suggest, saw Trump as an "opportunity to express that anger at both political parties."

The paperwritten by Douglas Kriner, a political scientist at Boston University, and Francis Shen, a law professor at the University of Minnesotaprovides powerful lessons about the electoral viability of principled non-intervention, a stance that Trump was able to emulate somewhat on the campaign trail but so far has been incapable of putting into practice.

The study, available at SSRN, found a "significant and meaningful relationship between a community's rate of military sacrifice and its support for Trump." The statistical model it used suggested that if Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin had suffered "even a modestly lower casualty rate," all three could have flipped to Hillary Clinton, making her the president. The study controlled for party identification, comparing Trump's performance in the communities selected to Mitt Romney's performance in 2012. It also controlled for other relevant factors, including median family income, college education, race, the percentage of a community that is rural, and even how many veterans there were.

"Even after including all of these demographic control variables, the relationship between a county's casualty rate and Trump's electoral performance remains positive and statistically significant," the paper noted. "Trump significantly outperformed Romney in counties that shouldered a disproportionate share of the war burden in Iraq and Afghanistan."

The president's electoral fate in 2020 "may well rest on the administration's approach to the human costs of war," the paper suggests. "If Trump wants to maintain his connection to this part of his base, his foreign policy would do well to be highly sensitive to American combat casualties." More broadly, the authors argue that "politicians from both parties would do well to more directly recognize and address the needs of those communities whose young women and men are making the ultimate sacrifice for the country."

The most effective way of addressing their needs is to advance a foreign policy that does not see Washington as the world's policeman, that treats U.S. military operations as a last resort, and that rethinks the foreign policy establishment's expansive and often vague definition of national security interests.

"America has been at war continuously for over 15 years, but few Americans seem to notice," Kriner and Shen write. "This is because the vast majority of citizens have no direct connection to those soldiers fighting, dying, and returning wounded from combat." This has often been cited as a reason that wars don't have much of an impact on elections. The war in Afghanistan, which began in 2001, wasn't mentioned as a policy concern in any of the three Clinton-Trump debates last year. The Trump administration's internal deliberations over whether to institute a troop surge have garnered little media coverage.

When President Barack Obama campaigned for reelection in 2012, he bragged that he'd brought the Iraq war to an end and promised to do the same for the war to Afghanistan. In fact, Obama did not end the war in Iraq, a fact he admitted only after Republicans blamed the rise of ISIS on the end of the war, and the conflict in Afghanistan outlasted his tenure. His claims nevertheless received little pushback.

Meanwhile, the principle of non-intervention, when articulated by politicians like Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), is often dismissed as unserious. "Simply being pro- or anti-intervention is not a useful way of thinking about foreign policy," Foreign Policy's Paul Miller wrote in 2014.

Paul did not make it far through the 2016 election cycle, though it probably wasn't his antiwar ideas that sank him. His father, the far more radical Ron Paul, performed a lot better in the 2012 Republican primaries, never wavering on the position of non-intervention. Rand tried to stake a position on both sides, hedging his non-interventionism for a base he assumed might not accept it.

As I warned in April 2015, Paul's shift toward Republican orthodoxy risked "driving away the kind of supporters probably no other mainstream candidate could attract" without convincing anyone in the establishment, which continued to call him an isolationist. Trump, meanwhile, slammed George W. Bush for the Iraq war and 9/11 at a debate in South Carolina, a miliary stronghold that nonetheless voted for Trump in its primary. Trump's on-again, off-again skepticism about America's wars led some to believe he might be a non-interventionist, though he was no such thing.

The paper by Kriner and Shen should be ample evidence that there will be space in the 2020 election cycle for a principled non-interventionist not just to run, but to win.

Related: Check out Reason's special foreign policy issue.

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Rep. Dave Brat, R-7th, removed a post from his Twitter and Instagram accounts in which he endorsed the idea of sending former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Libya to be the ambassador.

Brat said a new staffer made the post without his approval.

The picture was taken at a gun show in Fredericksburg on Saturday; Brat later posted that he had taken it down.

In the photo, Brat stood smiling next to a man holding a sign that said "Hillary for U.S. ambassador to Libya."

Brat's comment read, "Sign says it all."

Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, and three other Americans were killed in a raid on the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi in September 2012. Many conservatives blame then-Secretary of State Clinton for their deaths. The House Select Committee on Benghazi issued an 800-page report following an investigation.

Brat took heat from critics on social media over his post.

Brat said in an interview Monday that a staffer made the post.

"Ive got new staffers on board and theyre constantly putting posts up on Facebook and whatever, so I didnt vet that," he said.

Brat said he told his staff to remove it because a staffer told him "people are interpreting it in crazy left, far-left-land logic thats going on right now across the web."

Brat has repeatedly said he strives to not speak ill of anyone. And he said if someone looks at his Facebook page, they'll learn that it's the left that's using the vitriol.

"Who actually is using the vitriolic language? Me or the hard left? And the answer is right now online," he said.

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When youre not working, you have no shortage of time to spend on activities of your choosing.

And for Hillary Clinton, that means plenty of reading (in addition to writing a book about her failed 2016 campaign for the presidency).

Heres what she recently told a gathering of the American Library Association she has been reading:

I finished Elena Ferrantes Neapolitan Novels. I devoured mysteries by Louise Penny, Donna Leon, Jacqueline Winspear, Charles Todd. I reread old favorites like Henri Nouwens Return of the Prodigal Son, poetry of Maya Angelou and Mary Oliver. I was riveted by The Jersey Brothers and a new book of essays called The View from Flyover Country, which turned out to be especially relevant in the midst of our current health-care debate. And Ive enjoyed making my way through the growing stack of books people have sent me, often with notes that say things like, This one helped me; I hope it will help you.

The Jersey Brothers, published in May, is the true story of three brothers at key moments in World War II and the efforts of the two oldest to save their youngest brother. It makes Amazons list of the best biographies and memoirs of the year so far. The View from Flyover Country is a collection of essays from St. Louis journalist Sarah Kendzior published in 2015 as an e-book.

Clinton said losing herself in books plus long walks in the woods and the occasional glass of Chardonnay has helped get her cope with losing the election.

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Reshma Saujani, the founder and CEO of the nonprofit, Girls Who Code, says she spends 25 percent of her time mentoring.

While many CEOs might think thats excessive, for Saujani, it makes sense. The organization she founded promotes the importance of mentoring relationships in order to narrow the gender gap in technology. And thats no small task, given the size of the discrepancy just 18 percent of todays computer science graduates are women.

Girls Who Code connects middle and high-school girls with employees at some of the most prominent tech companies in the United States. Those mentoring relationships are what have made Girls Who Code so successful. The organization now has over 10,000 alumnae, many of whom are majoring in computer science at top universities across the country.

I spoke with Saujani about mentorship and what it means to her as part of The Atlantics series, On the Shoulders of Giants. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Caroline Kitchener: Why do you spend so much time mentoring?

Reshma Saujani: Ive always felt that, as a woman, and particularly as a woman of color, its important to pay it forward. When I was growing up there were a lot of things my immigrant parents couldnt help me with: raising money, applying for school. We were new to this country and I had to figure out a lot by myself. I often felt likewow, I wish I had someone I could talk to. I want to give people the knowledge that I didnt have.

Kitchener: Are there any mentors who helped you along your career path?

Saujani: Hillary Clinton was a hugely important mentor for me. I dont talk to her everyday, but sometimes mentorship means being able to watch somebodys leadership from afar. That person might pop into your life at a critical moment to give you some important piece of advice or word of encouragement.

Kitchener: How did your relationship start?

Saujani: Ive known her since I was 18. She probably doesnt remember this, but I met her for the first time when I was an intern at the White House. After that, I introduced her at a fundraiser for John Kerry in 2004. And then I started working on her senate campaign, and got to know her. I worked on both of her presidential races. She came to Girls Who Code events and spoke to our girls. Shes always been there, elevating my work. She has always been invested in my growth as a leader.

Kitchener: Whats the biggest thing you learned from her?

Saujani: She taught me the power of resilience. She always gets up to fight another day.

Kitchener: Who do you mentor?

Saujani: I have a series of different people who I mentor. Some are people who work for me, some are Girls Who Code alumni. I give my email out all the timemy team doesnt love that! People e-mail me or tweet at me or LinkedIn me. Ive learned that oftentimes people just need five minutes. People just need to touch somebody real, and have a connection for a moment.

Kitchener: And you respond to all these people?

Saujani: I try to, yes.

Kitchener: Ive heard a lot of mentors say that if theyre going to take on a mentee, that mentee really has to prove herself. But thats not how you see it.

Saujani: No, its not. If you took the effort to write me an email, I am going to respond. Though I will say thisif I get an email from someone asking to talk, Ill ask them to be more specific. People often dont have time for a chat, but they do have time to answer a question.

Kitchener: Do you also have people youve mentored over a long period of time?

Saujani: One sticks out. Sheryl Stone was an intern on my first campaign. She had just started working in communications, right out of Brown. I loved her spunk and her spirit. I thought she had a brilliant mind and a lot of potential. Next she joined my second public advocacy campaign, and then I brought her on at Girls Who Code. Now she works in the private sector, but we still have dinner once a month.

Kitchener: Why do you think you two have stayed so close?

Saujani: I think a good mentoring relationship is mutual. She will be like, I saw you wrote that op-ed. I thought it sucked. Or shell say, Your hair is looking crazy today. Mentorship is a two-way street.

In my journey there has sometimes been so much pain. I didnt know what to do, I didnt have anyone to help me. When Im able to impart a shortcut or a hackto say, I learned this, you should do thatthats joyful.

Kitchener: What advice would you give to young people who are looking for mentors?

Saujani: I believe in the power of peer mentorship. When I learned how to ask for a raise, how to fire someone, how to deal with a board challengeI didnt get that from mentors like Hillary Clinton. I got that from women who were my friends, and who had already done the thing that I was doing.

Kitchener: What can mentors like Hillary Clinton give you that peer mentors cant?

Saujani: Sometimes you need someone to use their power and their influence to help you. Or maybe youre at a crossroads in your career, and you need someone to give you perspective.

Kitchener: Do you see mentorship as a core part of the Girls Who Code mission?

Saujani: Yes. Girls Who Code is all about providing role models. You cant be what you cant see. We always make sure we share our journeys with the girls. When mentors come into the classroom, we encourage them to teach the girls about the things they have learned on their journeys so that the girls can know them, too.

Kitchener: Your organization focuses on mentorship for young women in particular, why that demographic?

Saujani:. Oftentimes women hesitate to ask questions because we think were the only ones. Mentors make you feel like youre not crazy. Its incredible to hear that someone you admire felt exactly the same way you do, and now theyre CEO of a major company. Thats a powerful thing.

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