Really lovely essay about falling in and out of love with Messi and the Argentina team by my colleague @ishaantharoor.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/global-...

I assume many will see my latest @newyorker.com column as churlish and grumpy. Fair enough. I am a lifelong Argentina fan, like tens of millions also from the Global South. But this is not the team that stirs my childhood nostalgia

If you are in Brooklyn, I will be moderating a discussion about soccer, politics, and the 2026 World Cup featuring @rorysmith.bsky.social , @simonkuper.bsky.social , @ishaantharoor.bsky.social, and @leanderalphabet.bsky.social! It's going to be a lot of fun! mcnallyjackson.com/event/2026-0...

Got thoughts and feels about the USMNT and this World Cup? Discuss at BKLYN STUDIOS, 1 DeKalb Ave, this Thurs, June 16, w/ @goldengoalmag.bsky.social @rorysmith.bsky.social, @simonkuper.bsky.social, @ishaantharoor.bsky.social & @leanderalphabet.bsky.social Tix: mcnallyjackson.com/event/2026-0...

World Cup Weekly: Quarter-finals, “Anyone But Argentina” and football’s justice problem. With @ishaantharoor.bsky.social, @tonykaron.bsky.social and @shireenahmed.bsky.social. youtube.com/watch?v=F1jXNQdT_V0&feature=youtu.be

On Thursday, July 16, the friends from @goldengoalmag.bsky.social are hosting @rorysmith.bsky.social, @simonkuper.bsky.social, @ishaantharoor.bsky.social and little old me for a panel discussion about the World Cup. 7pm. McNally Jackson in Brooklyn. RSVP here: mcnallyjackson.com/event/2026-0...

This week's @newyorker.com column: On how you can read the American Revolution as a sideshow in a far greater imperial drama and why the Founding Fathers were obsessed with Hyder Ali, Sultan of Mysore www.newyorker.com/news/global-...

My latest

This week's @newyorker.com column: On how you can read the American Revolution as a sideshow in a far greater imperial drama and why the Founding Fathers were obsessed with Hyder Ali, Sultan of Mysore www.newyorker.com/news/global-...

Tomorrow at 10.30 am, World Cup Weekly is live again. With @tonykaron.bsky.social, @ishaantharoor.bsky.social and joining us, Daniel Levy. Episode One, where we were joined by Imran Garda, journalist and host of Doha Debates, is archived on Youtube. open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Tomorrow at 10 am EST, we launch a six-part weekly, hour-long, live World Cup conversation, hosted by @tonykaron.bsky.social and I. Our first guests are @ishaantharoor.bsky.social and Imran Garda. Supported by @rosaluxnyc.bsky.social.

Catch our weekly World Cup (and its politics and all else) podcast, starting tomorrow for the rest of the tournament!

My latest in @newyorker.com, on Brexit's toxic, disastrous legacy, a decade after the referendum

As we pore over the deal that's been agreed, let's not lose sight over the scale of the calamity of the past four months. This week's column in the @newyorker.com: "The Spectacular Failure and Ruinous Costs of the Iran War" www.newyorker.com/news/global-...

The Spectacular Failure and Ruinous Costs of the Iran War, by @ishaantharoor.bsky.social “It’s difficult to see what’s emerging as anything other than a humiliating climbdown for a President who started a war of choice vowing to transform the Middle East.” www.newyorker.com/news/global-...

As we pore over the deal that's been agreed, let's not lose sight over the scale of the calamity of the past four months. This week's column in the @newyorker.com: "The Spectacular Failure and Ruinous Costs of the Iran War" www.newyorker.com/news/global-...

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

Der neue Global Affairs Columnist von @newyorker.com @ishaantharoor.bsky.social war heute im Presseclub und hat mit @raimundloew.bsky.social über den Iran-Krieg, das Verhältnis USA-Israel und die US-Medienlandschaft gesprochen.

"Trump's Iran War and the US Media": Morgen um 10 ist Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor.bsky.social, Global Affairs Columnist des @newyorker.com, auf Einladung des @kreiskyforum.bsky.social zu Gast @concordia.at Info: concordia.at/ishaan-tharo...

Morgen kommt der frischgebackene "Global Affairs Columnist" des legendären @newyorker.com-Magazins @ishaantharoor.bsky.social zu uns in den Presseclub und wird mit @raimundloew.bsky.social über Trumps Irankrieg und die Lage der US-Medien diskutieren. 📅 16.6., 10h Anmeldung: [email protected]

My latest weekly column in the @newyorker.com, which has been dubbed "Global Notes"—so long WorldView: On the day the World Cup begins, I wrote about the undeniable gloom that surrounds it, and how the Trump-shaped shadow over the tournament can still be dispelled www.newyorker.com/news/global-...

PERSONAL NEWS: I've joined the @newyorker.com full-time as a global-affairs columnist, where I'll be writing a weekly essay on the world. It's a dream gig and I'm still pinching myself that I get to say all these incredible, talented journalists I've long admired are my colleagues!

PERSONAL NEWS: I've joined the @newyorker.com full-time as a global-affairs columnist, where I'll be writing a weekly essay on the world. It's a dream gig and I'm still pinching myself that I get to say all these incredible, talented journalists I've long admired are my colleagues!

A trend you can see a figurative mile away. No one should be blindsided by this when it does fully take hold of our politics

How Dictators Use Corruption To Destroy Democracy (and Get Insanely Rich in the Process) @oslofreedomforum.com, tomorrow 14:15 - 15:15 Featuring: ACDC's @szakonyi.bsky.social with @ishaantharoor.bsky.social, Elsa Peraldi and Vadim Kleiner. oslofreedomforum.com/event/oslo-f...

Xi "believes that China is better able than the US to ‘eat bitterness’—that is, to endure hardship & emerge stronger from periods of struggle." IGP Senior Research Scholar @juliangewirtz.bsky.social quoted in @ishaantharoor.bsky.social’s piece in @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

I wrote in the @newyorker.com’s daily newsletter about Arsenal’s triumph

I wrote in the @newyorker.com’s daily newsletter about Arsenal’s triumph

My latest in @newyorker.com, featuring an interview with @jmalbares.bsky.social, Spain's foreign minister: “Sometimes I see people saying, ‘Well, there is an old order, and there is a new order.' No, there is a rules-based order, or there is the chaos of war, and that’s a choice."

My latest in @newyorker.com, featuring an interview with @jmalbares.bsky.social, Spain's foreign minister: “Sometimes I see people saying, ‘Well, there is an old order, and there is a new order.' No, there is a rules-based order, or there is the chaos of war, and that’s a choice."

My latest piece in the @newyorker.com

My latest in @newyorker.com on the U.S.-Iran truce, Trump's threats of civilizational destruction and the White House's "Stone Age" mentality

My latest in @newyorker.com on the U.S.-Iran truce, Trump's threats of civilizational destruction and the White House's "Stone Age" mentality

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...