My latest In Gaza, another winter of despair www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

@ishaantharoor.bsky.social writes that "the grim conditions exacerbate an already bleak status quo. Much of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure has been destroyed, including many medical facilities. Those that remain in operation are struggling to care for the population." wapo.st/4sr8vFZ

The Messi tour of India may be the most surreal episode of 2025, and that's saying something

We are learning of the horrors of El Fasher not from visceral evidence but through silence and absence. Satellite images show hollowed-out neighborhoods, bloodstained grounds and traces of mass graves. Children fleeing El Fasher arrived at camps for the displaced without parents or other loved ones.

“What is unfolding in El Fasher recalls the horrors Darfur was subjected to 20 years ago,” Tom Fletcher, the U.N.'s top relief official, said…..But somehow today we are seeing a very different global reaction — one of resignation.” Via @ishaantharoor.bsky.social [gift link] wapo.st/48IoTZp

@ishaantharoor.bsky.social's column provides better analysis and insight. wapo.st/4pMUCj8

Instead of focusing on threats from Russia and China, Trump’s new National Security Strategy takes aim at Europe, warning against “civilizational erasure” caused by unfettered migration and a feckless liberal establishment @ishaantharoor.bsky.social writes www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

The great @jonawils.bsky.social on the World Cup: "Every other World Cup host has said to most of the rest of the world, 'please come to our country.' Whereas the US appears actively hostile to outsiders. And I think a lot of people feel pretty uncomfortable just about the idea of going to the US."

My latest On the release of Juan Orlando Hernández and the glaring ‘hypocrisy’ behind Trump’s war on drugs Free to read: wapo.st/446rLOm

Why fight with Venezuela if you free from prison a convicted Latin American leader who worked with Mexican cartels to stuff American noses with cocaine? www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1... @ishaantharoor.bsky.social

Here's @ishaantharoor.bsky.social with the longer story, including the murder of human rights activist Berta Caceres, who I had the privilege of translating for on a US tour and who was brutally murdered in 2016. www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldvi...

NEW: Not only has the Trump admin disinvited South Africa from next year's G-20 Summit, but it's gutted the organization's website and removed South Africa's documentation and the reports tied to this year's summit. Instead, you just have this picture of Trump.

From latest: Martin Sellner, the Austrian neo-Nazi who popularized the term "remigration," showed off a screenshot to my colleagues of a Trump social media post, using the word. He said that Trump’s borrowing of the term was a “vindication” of his own political project. Free link: wapo.st/48rVum6

From latest: Martin Sellner, the Austrian neo-Nazi who popularized the term "remigration," showed off a screenshot to my colleagues of a Trump social media post, using the word. He said that Trump’s borrowing of the term was a “vindication” of his own political project. Free link: wapo.st/48rVum6

Trump’s embrace of ‘remigration’ echoes Europe’s far right by @ishaantharoor.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true

Yuli Novak, executive director of B'Tselem, fears the return of a status quo where Israel can carry on with “much less criticism, because there is the facade of things being okay.” In the meeting of Trump and Mohammed, you can see the edifice behind that facade rising. My latest: wapo.st/4idIxRC

Yuli Novak, executive director of B'Tselem, fears the return of a status quo where Israel can carry on with “much less criticism, because there is the facade of things being okay.” In the meeting of Trump and Mohammed, you can see the edifice behind that facade rising. My latest: wapo.st/4idIxRC

"Neither the political process endorsed at the United Nations nor deepening U.S.-Saudi ties change the bleak reality for Palestinians on the ground," writes @ishaantharoor.bsky.social today in his WorldView column for the @washingtonpost.com. wapo.st/4idIxRC

More than 200,000 Iraqi civilians were killed in the wake of the post-9/11 wars writes @ishaantharoor.bsky.social, citing our research. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

"Kazakhstan’s entry into the pact, which could formally happen in December, appears to be more about courting Trump with a symbolic gesture than forging Middle East peace." By @ishaantharoor.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

“The clash that Mamdani’s victory sets up is not one of civilizations. Rather, it’s of competing visions of the world — one anchored in Trump’s angry nationalist project and the other in Mamdani’s global city.” I’ll take the latter any day. via @ishaantharoor.bsky.social

@ishaantharoor.bsky.social on the NYC election: "The clash that Mamdani’s victory sets up is not one of civilizations. Rather, it’s of competing visions of the world — one anchored in Trump’s angry nationalist project and the other in Mamdani’s global city." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.

In the shadow of Sudan’s misery, President Donald Trump has done conspicuously little. He insists he’s the world’s greatest peacemaker — claiming credit for resolving conflicts that, in some instances, are either still raging or never existed in the first place.

"In the shadow of Sudan’s misery, President Donald Trump has done conspicuously little.....The White House was more focused on gutting USAID, an agency that propped up critical elements of the humanitarian complex aiding Sudanese people." By @ishaantharoor.bsky.social. wapo.st/49qdcbO

@ishaantharoor.bsky.social channels everybody who watched Turkey's descent into pure authoritarianism and is now watching Trump do the same damn things in this piece www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Elon Musk's Twitter in one image

100%. And by the way, that is generally true in all dictatorships-in-the-making

What do Taylor Swift songs accomplish that K-Pop Demon Hunters’ do not? And the latter has the charming virtue of being adored by children, not adult cultists.

Question for the Bluesky nerderati: What's the most egregious invocation of Sparta / macho ancient Greek iconography or history that you've seen in modern 21st century politics?

My latest Trump declares a new ‘dawn’ in Middle East. It could be a false one. wapo.st/476s1gN

@ishaantharoor.bsky.social writes "Regional leaders have conveyed to Trump the importance of reviving the moribund peace process between Israelis and Palestinians....But Trump has spoken little of the aspirations of Palestinians...." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

In Venezuela, @ishaantharoor.bsky.social writes, Trump’s efforts of late have had little to do with peace www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

New from me at Cato: I go through the numerous and massive First Amendment and academic-freedom violations of Trump's proffered "compact" with universities and then talk about the mechanism by which it would be enforced, by way of what I describe as a "retroactive push-button guillotine."

Nuanced analysis by @ishaantharoor.bsky.social, who asks how much credit does Trump deserve for the Gaza ‘peace’ deal? www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

@ishaantharoor.bsky.social observes that "Israel’s tactical triumphs over the past two years have not resulted in clear strategic success." wapo.st/4oaWMZ8

George Carlin, eat your heart out. The federal government's list of words to be scrubbed is more than seven, and it is growing fast. pen.org/banned-words...

@ishaantharoor.bsky.social spoke with Rob Malley, co-author of "Tomorrow is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine," for his column. @imes-gw.bsky.social was pleased to host Rob Malley yesterday (9/30) for a discussion with @abuaardvark.bsky.social. wapo.st/46LcR0f

Again, the man with the single greatest access to real and true information in the history of the world

The U.S. and Israel are increasingly isolated on the world stage as more Western countries recognize Palestinian statehood, says @washingtonpost.com global affairs columnist @ishaantharoor.bsky.social.

Designating Antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization” is legally meaningless. But ominous. Designating narcos as “terrorists organizations” didn’t authorize use of force, but nonetheless paved the way for lethal strikes in the Caribbean on “terrorists.” www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The latest international affairs commentary by @ishaantharoor.bsky.social wapo.st/4punw8l

There’s a simpler way to describe anti-anti-fascism.

Check out this scatterplot of health spending per capita (x axis) & life expectancy (y axis) in OECD countries (lines = averages). The United States sits alone in the bottom right area due to its very high spending rate and below-average life expectancy. More www.oecd.org/en/publicati... 🧪

In a different era, the answer to a lot of stupid conversations on Twitter would be to have some wise, overly-engaged take about those stupid conversations. Now, the obvious thing is not to engage those conversations at all.

Most interesting commentary on events in Nepal I’ve seen so far, by the consistently worth reading @ishaantharoor.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

The latest analysis by @ishaantharoor.bsky.social follows. It makes me wonder: Has a Major Non-NATO Ally ever bombed the capital of another Major Non-NATO Ally before? www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

My latest In Sudan and Afghanistan, disaster upon disaster www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

The laws have not changed, the precedent has not changed. What has changed is that you have a President who says "I have an Article 2 where I have the right to do whatever I want as president' and a Supreme Court who agrees.