Rahm Emanuel’s Next Chapter

Rahm Emanuel, the former White House chief of staff and congressman, stunned Chicago’s political scene in 2018 when he declined to seek reelection to a third term as mayor, under the cloud of controversy surrounding his handling of the 2014 police shooting of a teenager. At the time of that announcement, he told reporters that he would open his “next chapter.”

After a relatively quiet start to his stint as U.S. ambassador to Japan, he has taken to that new chapter with force.