@ishaantharoor.bsky.social
Global affairs columnist @WashingtonPost.com, anchor of The Post's WorldView column and newsletter on int'l politics. Dad. New Yorker. Victoria concordia crescit. New to BlueSky!
My second piece in the @newyorker.com. I think we all know the answer to the headline
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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
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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?
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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...
12.02.2026 16:42 — 👍 130 🔁 56 💬 7 📌 5Happy 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.
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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.
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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.
19.02.2026 16:18 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0Great 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.
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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 ⬇️
13.02.2026 17:52 — 👍 13 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 1Ishaan’s analysis of global affairs is top notch, please sign up and support him!
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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...
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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.
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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
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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
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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.”
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
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 did meet Flamini and Wenger in Davos.
22.01.2026 15:49 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0LOL
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I’m doing a Reddit AMA from Davos at noon ET
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