My latest for the @newyorkerunion.bsky.social On Trump's Suez moment, the strategic debacle of the Iran war and a stark illustration of the changing face of American power on the world stage

The “Suez moment” I talk about here abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io/ir-theory-an...

My latest for the @newyorkerunion.bsky.social On Trump's Suez moment, the strategic debacle of the Iran war and a stark illustration of the changing face of American power on the world stage

Hundreds of mourners gathered in driving rain in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on Sunday to bury two prominent Lebanese television journalists and a cameraman who were killed in an Israeli airstrike a day earlier www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...

"A banner moment for Spain's center-left government on multiple fronts" - @ishaantharoor.bsky.social

I'M SORRY I MEANT IT AS A JOKE

I’m briefly in India. This is a facile observation, but Americans have barely scratched the surface in understanding how the rest of the world is reacting to this war. It’s already an Iraq War-style disaster in the global imagination, underscored by the thuggishness and caprice of the Trump approach

My third piece for @newyorker.com, on the Iranian regime's desperate gambit for survival, Israel's moment of regional hegemony and the Trump administration's widening strategic quagmire

My third piece for @newyorker.com, on the Iranian regime's desperate gambit for survival, Israel's moment of regional hegemony and the Trump administration's widening strategic quagmire

My second piece in the @newyorker.com. I think we all know the answer to the headline www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

NEW The White House has submitted its War Powers report to Congress for the attack on Iran. The justification for military action rests on 1) Iran's supposed continued quest for nuclear weapons and 2) the threat Iran's missiles pose to US forces, vessels, civilians and those of partners. 1/n

"It's really telling how much more a nonsense MAGA fantasy about Greenland spooked elites in the West than the actual wielding of U.S. hard power in ways that are unprovoked, probably illegal and rule-breaking" -- @ishaantharoor.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Labour’s coalition and strategy is fraying in every direction. Starmer’s has anchored that strategy in saying only Labour can beat Reform. And (like Caerphilly) that’s just been shown to be nonsense. What’s left?

I wrote a piece for the @newyorker.com on Trump’s pantomime United Nations www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Dear friends on Bluesky, it's been an overwhelming week since the mass layoff at the Post. I'll be continuing the work and would be so grateful if you sign up here to keep up with my future journalism. docs.google.com/forms/d/1dlh...

Happy to speak with @ishaantharoor.bsky.social for this piece. Despite the meetings and announcements and logos and all the rest, it doesn’t appear that the Board actually does anything. That’s obviously very bad news for Gaza.

The Board of Peace might be destined to fail, but it still threatens to undermine an international system in which the U.S. was once the linchpin. @ishaantharoor.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

I wrote a piece for the @newyorker.com on Trump’s pantomime United Nations www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

The President of Kazakhstan, sitting in the rebranded Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace during the first formal meeting of Trump's Board of Peace, calls for Trump to win a Donald J. Trump Peace Prize administered by his own Board of Peace.

Great event, featuring opening remarks from @annikennorway.bsky.social and discussion between @ishaantharoor.bsky.social and @crisisgroup.org President @comfortero.crisisgroup.org of our 2026 10 Conflicts to Watch.

Thank you to @ishaantharoor.bsky.social for moderating the conversation! Read more about the 10 conflicts to watch here: www.crisisgroup.org/.../10-confl...

Peace ≠ Appeasement. Ambassador @annikennorway.bsky.social hosted an important fireside chat and reception marking International International Crisis Group’s 10 Conflicts to Watch 2026.

@ishaantharoor.bsky.social wrote The Washington Post's WorldView column for its flagship newsletter on international affairs. It had around half a million subscribers when management eliminated it — and Ishaan's position — last week. You can continue to follow his work by signing up here ⬇️

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Dear friends on Bluesky, it's been an overwhelming week since the mass layoff at the Post. I'll be continuing the work and would be so grateful if you sign up here to keep up with my future journalism. docs.google.com/forms/d/1dlh...

Shameful, dumb and self-defeating by @washingtonpost.com They consciously gave up one of their very best in @ishaantharoor.bsky.social

For years, the first newsletter I read after waking up & getting the kids to school was @ishaantharoor.bsky.social’s WorldView for the Washington Post. Nothing else in mainstream US media gave readers foreign perspectives on US news. Jeff Bezos and Will Lewis killed it. Today was its last edition.

What about the guy with HALF A MILLION subscribers to his newsletter, Jeff? Why did you cut him loose? That's a lotta clicks! @ishaantharoor.bsky.social's WorldView newsletter had over half a million subscribers and a global readership.

I'm heartbroken too, Ishaan, from the outside looking in. The WP has been one of my role models since I was a baby journalist. And your column has been essential reading since it began. I hope you're up and firing again soon, from a new place you can be proud of. @ishaantharoor.bsky.social

My latest In Gaza, an ‘apocalyptic wasteland’ foretold wapo.st/4rrkWAb

Such is the outrage in Denmark over both Trump’s desire for Greenland and disparaging remarks about NATO that one of the country’s leading newspapers devoted their Saturday front and plenty of room inside to the bios of all 44 Danes slain during NATO missions in support of the US

Such is the outrage in Denmark over both Trump’s desire for Greenland and disparaging remarks about NATO that one of the country’s leading newspapers devoted their Saturday front and plenty of room inside to the bios of all 44 Danes slain during NATO missions in support of the US

Calls for a boycott of this summer’s World Cup are unlikely to go far, writes @ishaantharoor.bsky.social. “The last 2 World Cups were held amid huge controversy… But no country engaged in a full-fledged boycott… The vast love of the sport shared by many tends to win out over any moral hesitation.”

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

I’m doing a Reddit AMA from Davos at noon ET www.reddit.com/r/economy/co...

The feeling at Davos is “about much more than Greenland. It’s about whether the USA will accept the liberal world order or will they break from that world.” via @ishaantharoor.bsky.social

'Still, the apparent endgame in Caracas, which has seen Trump working with the remnants of Maduro’s regime and sidelining Venezuela’s prodemocratic opposition, may be a cautionary tale for Iran’s protesters.' @ishaantharoor.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com #Iran #Trump #Venezuela

“Such is the dizzying speed of recent developments that an event from only a week ago could offer a precedent to newer upheavals.” @ishaantharoor.bsky.social: Iran analysts are eyeing Trump’s gambit in Venezuela for clues to what might come in the days ahead www.washingtonpost.com//world/2026/...

Iran’s protests seem different this time. Is the regime on the brink? Iran’s rulers are not just facing a clamor from within @ishaantharoor.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

@ishaantharoor.bsky.social comments on the other side of [Trump's] 'anti-globalism': "The gambit in Venezuela and its sharpening intent to claim the territory of Greenland have offered the most concrete signs yet of Trump’s unvarnished imperialistic streak." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

With its latest moves, “the U.S. administration of the wildest imagination of Latin American leftists has come to life,” @filipecampante.bsky.social told me. Free to read: wapo.st/4sEA6n9

I spoke to @ishaantharoor.bsky.social about what the US looks like now, seen from Latin America. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

“The aftermath of Trump’s Venezuela operation has pointed to a shifting paradigm, where the United States is acting with the neo-imperialist impulses of more than a century ago, increasingly untethered from the ‘rules-based’ postwar order.” via @ishaantharoor.bsky.social

Netanyahu, the Trump administration and others on the global right are drawing renewed inspiration from a Greek city-state mythologized for its militarism. @ishaantharoor.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

How ancient Sparta explains 2026 Netanyahu, the Trump administration and others on the global right are drawing renewed inspiration from a Greek city-state mythologized for its militarism. wapo.st/49jQsZn via @ishaantharoor.bsky.social

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.