Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoğlu has written a letter from Turkish jail to @theguardian.com readers: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Intentionally or not, Trump is prepared to put the US imprimatur on the final dismantling of Turkish democracy.

"Opposition to the recognition of Palestinian statehood stands at the heart of that [Israeli public] consensus."

Benny Gantz conveniently confirming what critics of Israel have long argued - the problem isn't just Netanyahu www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

"Netanyahu presents Israel, like Sparta, as a besieged country surrounded by enemies and forced into perpetual defense. But this misunderstands both states. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/23/s...

A new party! How does he come up with these brilliant and original ideas?

Reposting in honor of Erdogan's impending visit: foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/17/t...

My latest from @foreignpolicy.com "Just recently, Turkey stood out for its repeated assaults on international norms. Now, those norms have been shattered by a host of bigger and more aggressive actors, and Turkey looks almost calm in comparison. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/17/t...

Serious question: What's the most critical thing anyone still employed by a major DC think tank has said about Israel's war in Gaza?

My latest from @foreignpolicy.com "Just recently, Turkey stood out for its repeated assaults on international norms. Now, those norms have been shattered by a host of bigger and more aggressive actors, and Turkey looks almost calm in comparison. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/17/t...

This is a good piece on why US foreign assistance was structured the way it was, and why the main critiques ignored the tradeoffs behind it foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/15/u...

And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section. Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.

A lot of the pro-restraint Left has embraced what might politely be called Moynism: the hope that when confronted with the reality of American militarism, voters will recoil. Trump's trajectory suggests the opposite is true. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-warmonge...

I’m in @liberalcurrents.com today arguing against the rebranding of DoD as the Department of War. Many people are arguing this renaming can be a reverse trickeration way to anti-militarism and restraint. It can’t.

Looking fuzzy, talking about maps: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWL_...

Also for the past century America simultaneously expanded democracy at home and empire abroad: foreignpolicy.com/2021/01/14/h...

incredible map (via @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social) of all of Ian Fleming's extremely specific bits of racism www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/v...

Wonderful news that Elizabeth Tsurkov, kidnapped in Iraq in 2023, has been released.

in defense, diplomacy, and energy. The latest Israeli strike on Hamas in Qatar only deepens Ankara’s unease. Read the piece here foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/09/t...

My new piece in @ForeignPolicy : Erdoğan once hoped post-Assad Syria would ease his domestic & foreign headaches. Instead, it’s created bigger ones—chief among them Israel. To counter, he’s falling back on old tools: threats of military action in Syria or reliance on Russia.++

I wrote the case up for why I think Putin was serious and Xi wasn't here - foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/05/p...

Really enjoyed the chance to talk about how North ended up on top of our maps with the Antique Roadshow Detours podcast: @roadshowpbs.bsky.social www.wgbh.org/podcasts/det...

The last six months certainly make it hard to believe Erdogan would have voluntarily left power if he lost in 2023

Really enjoyed the chance to talk about how North ended up on top of our maps with the Antique Roadshow Detours podcast: @roadshowpbs.bsky.social www.wgbh.org/podcasts/det...

lol the Atlantic rules

Wait, so even Susan Collins is calling it illegal but the Times is going with "Legally Untested"??

Long past time for a moratorium on any article with the phrases: If Trump is serious about X... If Trump really wants to do Y... If executed effectively, Trump's plan for Z... He isn't. He doesn't. And it wont be.

Since we're apparently re-litigating the Mercator Projection again, I can't resist reposting this: foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/14/t...

Since we're apparently re-litigating the Mercator Projection again, I can't resist reposting this: foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/14/t...

Lawfare, noun, any use of law that I personally don’t care for

Anxiety, Apocalypse and the end of the Liberal International Order. My latest from @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/15/a...

Really loved this article about following the route of the old Berlin Baghdad Railway foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/22/b...

Wait, we in Turkey are part of an Axis of countries conquering the United States, and we get which part exactly? Florida! This is ridiculous. I want pieces of the Midwest at the very least.

Anxiety, rather than complacency, has fueled some of the most dangerous and self-defeating policies of the last 100 years, writes FP’s Nick Danforth.

Anxiety, Apocalypse and the end of the Liberal International Order. My latest from @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/15/a...

"The true tragedy of geopolitics is that even having a finely honed sense of tragedy may not be enough to escape it." Another really thought-provoking piece by @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social.

Looks like Alaska is the new Turkey: A rising diplomatic powerhouse and energy hub, leveraging its unique position between East and West to bring together opposing sides and end the war in Ukraine...

Thank you @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social and Megan Dubois, my editors at @foreignpolicy.com, for bringing Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Dreamers and Cynics to readers: foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/08/t...

This is excellent.

Some thoughts here from me on Ankara's peace talks with Öcalan and the sociopolitical imagination&desires behind it: foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/30/t...

Me in @foreignpolicy.com. The Trump administration's claim that Iran would need "years" to rebuild its previous nuclear program is like asserting that an unlocked bank vault would be impervious to a cyberattack. It’s true but misses the point. foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/25/i...

www.liberalcurrents.com/moyns-muddle... For the afternoon crowd: I'm in @liberalcurrents.com today taking issue with Sam Moyn's analysis of the origins of the Russo-Ukraine War. I also critique his (and others') contradictory desire for an int'l system based on spheres of influence and his desire/

There's a maddening kind of progressive public scholarship that revels in showing how the history of various things is "entangled" with racism - without ever quite defining "entangled" or engaging with the fact that in America or Europe everything, good or bad, is historically entangled with racism

"The foundational lie upon which the Biden administration’s Gaza policy was based was that the enormous harm inflicted on civilians in Gaza was unintentional. The truth is that inflicting civilian harm is part of Israel’s strategy." Matt Duss in Foreign Policy foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/18/b...

Coming to this from an interest in colonial genocide, but a conclusion that imposes itself is that the Holocaust isn’t a paradigm genocide. Taking it for one has consequences.

I keep harping on it, but this is why its so important to get the history of genocide right: foreignpolicy.com/2015/04/21/t...

A fascinating article from Perin Gürel on Farah Pahlavi and the politics of Westernization in Iran foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/11/i...

If that last statement is true, it would be very Francis Fukuyama-esque. This kind of 180 degree turn that gives everyone whiplash almost never works out how it’s intended, particularly in a country like Turkey.

Instead of multicultural democracy, Erdogan seems interested in consolidating a new model of multicultural authoritarianism, with Ocalan as the Kurdish Kadyrov.

And Erin McFee on how eliminating CARE is a betrayal of America's Afghan allies and a threat to American security foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/11/i...