Ishaan Tharoor

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

Iran’s Desperate, High-Risk Survival Strategy The regime in Tehran knows it likely can’t win the war, but it can certainly globalize the pain of the conflict—even if it’s ultimately at its own expense.

Read here: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

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...

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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?

Donald Trump’s Pantomime United Nations 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.

I wrote a piece for the @newyorker.com on Trump’s pantomime United Nations

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

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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...

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.

Donald Trump’s Pantomime United Nations 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.

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...

Donald Trump’s Pantomime United Nations 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.

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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Ishaan Tharoor — Follow my work Please share your email address so I can keep you posted.

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

Column | In Gaza, an ‘apocalyptic wasteland’ foretold Seen two years later, a suppressed U.S cable warning of a “wasteland” in northern Gaza, as reported by Reuters, is a small footnote of history.

My latest
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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

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

Column | Clamor is growing in Europe to boycott Trump’s World Cup This summer’s North American World Cup is inextricably tied to President Donald Trump. Some of his critics are questioning the fitness of the U.S. as a host.

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.”