Ben Rhodes

Opinion | This Is the Story of How the Democrats Blew It on Gaza

"If you believe a 19-year-old Jewish college student chanting “Free Palestine” is more dangerous than the vice president of the US implying that Germans should embrace the far-right party Alternative for Germany then you’re drawing the wrong lessons from history." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...

Opinion | This Is the Story of How the Democrats Blew It on Gaza

"The simplest thing to do would be the right thing": www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...

YouTube video by Pod Save the World BREAKING: Spy Scandal ROCKS Trump World

Trump's Ambassador to Israel hosts a notorious traitor at the US Embassy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_s1...

Zohran Mamdani showed us that generational change, bold ideas, principled stands, and movement building must be the future of a stagnant Democratic Party

Opinion | The Thread Tying Together Everything Trump Does

His is a world in which autocratic leaders make deals over the heads of the people, extrajudicial force is legitimized, conflicts simmer so long as they are kept off screens and corruption intermingles with diplomacy. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/o...

If Trump lies about everything else why does anyone presume he’s telling the truth about Gaza, Ukraine or Venezuela?

Opinion | Britain Offers a Warning of What America Could Become

"From masked ICE agents to threats against an alleged conspiracy of leftist NGOs, a sense of chaos demoralizes opposition and silences critics. American institutions are sorted into those who are with or against the administration. The empire came home." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...

Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers

Rodrigo Dueterte is literally in The Hague for this headline. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...

Trump, Putin, the Internet, social media, democracy, AI, climate change, and basically the history of the last decade - loved this conversation with @jonfavs.bsky.social on Offline.

Trump has not gotten a single concession from Putin - not one. His "deal making" is entirely about Ukrainian concessions.

Zelenskyy faces daunting trip to the White House – but this time he will not be alone Dream team of European leaders will be with the Ukrainian president, seeking to show a united front when they meet Donald Trump

“My advice would be to not capitulate to Trump,” Rhodes said. “He has grown all too accustomed to people he perceives as weaker bending to his will, which is something that Putin does not do… Zelenskyy needs Europe.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Hawks have often weaponized "Munich" every time the U.S. doesn't go to war. But they forget the real betrayal of Munich - two big countries meeting to carve up the borders of a smaller one to give to an aggressor without that nation present.

Live Updates: Trump Backs Plan to Cede Land for Peace in Ukraine

Trump wanting to concede Ukrainian territory that Russia does not even occupy (and that's not his to concede) is just about the worst case scenario. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

Trump’s interview shows just how easy it is for him to get completely played. Putin conceded nothing about Ukraine but repeats Trump conspiracy theories and he calls the meeting a 10 of 10.

So Putin gets a red carpet welcome, a ride in the presidential limo, speaks first at the presser, frames the meeting as a successful talk among equals, while making absolutely no concession on the conduct or outcome of the war.

The fact that an indicted war criminal has been invited to the US to meet with the President to look at maps of the country he invaded tells you Putin has already won.

Opinion | We’re Trapped in Trump’s Reality. This Is How We Escape It.

""Even when presented with Zohran Mamdani’s campaign — an innovative example of fresh political tactics and policies — many party leaders recoiled. The party seems — quite literally — afraid of its own future. It is past time for Democrats to do what Mr. Mamdani did " www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...

Trump’s DC takeover is not about crime or a distraction it’s a preview of the authoritarian playbook he wants to use in other cities using whatever authority and justification he can find.

YouTube video by Pod Save the World Trump’s Strongman Summit Is A Gift to Putin

New Pod Save the World on Trump's potential capitulation to Putin, Israel's Gaza "takeover" and the 4th anniversary of the collapse of Afghanistan, with @yaldahakim.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwRl...

Opinion | How Short-Term Thinking Is Destroying America

Trump has "embodied a culture in which money is ennobling, human beings are brands, and the capacity to be shamed is weakness." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...

Opinion | How Short-Term Thinking Is Destroying America

How Short-Term Thinking Is Destroying America www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...

On Wednesday, ICE GOONS arrested a mother in the school drop-off line at Inzunza Camarina Elementary in Chula Vista, leaving her two children in the car.

UN warns Gaza faces ‘starvation, pure and simple’ as child deaths mount – latest updates Humanitarian office says 37 children have died from acute malnutrition since July, as overall toll nears 100

"This is no longer a looming hunger crisis – this is starvation, pure and simple." www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

YouTube video by Pod Save the World Do we really believe Israel isn't capable of feeding Gaza?

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Two prominent Israeli human rights organizations released reports Monday that concluded their government’s actions in the Gaza Strip amounted to genocide

No Democrat should support military assistance for a government that is starving an entire population. This should not be a close call or some agonizing debate.

YouTube video by Pod Save the World Ben Rhodes Reacts to Trump's "Shady Bunch" Post of Him & Obama

Responding to Trump's absurd attacks to distract from Epstein: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az5S...

YouTube video by Pod Save the World Leaked Report Reveals TRUMP IS LYING About Major Decision

Extra Pod Save the World on latest Iran intel, Syria strikes, Bibi politics, and how some Dems are behind the curve on a lot of it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQck...

Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy Is Described as Avoiding the Likeliest Cause of Death

Always good to see the Democratic Party committed to learning absolutely nothing that could be uncomfortable. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/u...

Writers Guild Demands Investigation Into Stephen Colbert ‘Late Show’ Cancellation, Has ‘Significant Concerns’ About Bribery at Paramount The WGA has issued a statement calling for a bribery investigation following CBS' cancellation of 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.'

"“Paramount’s decision comes against a backdrop of relentless attacks on a free press by President Trump, through lawsuits against CBS and ABC, threatened litigation of media organizations with critical coverage, and the unconscionable defunding of PBS and NPR.” variety.com/2025/tv/news...