Iran's Khamenei was the first recognized head of state killed by a foreign power in decades.
@joshuakeating.bsky.social digs into why these killings have become so rare, whether it was legal, and if it's an omen of more assassinations to come.
www.vox.com/politics/481...
World leaders are almost never killed in war. Will the killing of Khamenei change that?
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PSA that when a headline or link post is phrased as a question, the author is usually suggesting that it's an interesting question that's worth exploring.
They're not actually asking for an answer.
Trump's foreign policy has come full circle. www.vox.com/politics/481...
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My latest for @vox.com on a Mideast regime change war with Trumpian characteristics
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Why did the US strike Iran?
@joshuakeating.bsky.social answers some of your biggest questions about the conflict.
The nuclear nightmare at the heart of the Trump-Anthropic fight
My latest for @vox.com www.vox.com/politics/480...
The politics of Israel have changed in the US
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A major shift, via Gallup. More from @joshuakeating.bsky.social www.vox.com/politics/480...
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Does the US have enough aircraft carriers for all Trump's wars?
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@voxdotcom.bsky.social
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Aircraft carriers can't keep up with World War Trump.
Ships still stuck near Venezuela likely influenced decision NOT to strike Iran in Jan.
Now that they're in place, high cost of leaving them there could push him TO strike.
More from @joshuakeating.bsky.social
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Does the US have enough aircraft carriers for all Trump's wars?
My latest for
@voxdotcom.bsky.social
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In light of some viral interest in AI and nukes today, reposting this article from last fall. The thing to worry about isn't AI launching nukes, it's how the people who might launch nukes are using AI www.vox.com/politics/468...
25.02.2026 20:54 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Appreciate the effort to be hipper and more local than the average hold music, but DC 311 may have ruined 'Bustin' Loose' for me
25.02.2026 15:18 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The latest on AI and nukes from Outrider fellow @joshuakeating.bsky.social π
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I have spent the past several months studying the cutting-edge research on modern democracies that have defeated authoritarian leaders.
I've learned that the conventional wisdom on the topic is wrong βΒ in ways that have clear implications for the US going forward
THREAD www.vox.com/politics/479...
Pleasure to join @davidsinger.bsky.social of the darkly hilarious INCOMING podcast for an interview on my AI/nuclear reporting for @outrider.org as well as New START, testing, and other things nuke-related
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"The culture that feels the most dangerous, and, thus, exciting to young people, will be what you canβt see online." www.garbageday.email/p/the-only-t...
23.02.2026 22:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My dream is a site where you can ONLY post links. You get like one sentence for your clever little takes and that's it
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Yes, Trump has reinstated global tariffs under different legal authority, but the days of him using them for geopolitical leverage or as a targeted weapon against countries that displease him may be over www.vox.com/politics/479...
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The Greenland stuff is not over www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/u...
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How will Trump get countries to do what he wants without tariffs? www.vox.com/politics/479...
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Will Trump be able to reimpose some tariffs, at least for awhile? Probably, yeah.
But the age of credibly threatening to slap giant tariffs on allies over Greenland, or for prosecuting a corrupt Trump ally, is probably over, @joshuakeating.bsky.social writes www.vox.com/politics/479...
The Supreme Court just blew up Trumpβs foreign policy
Latest for @vox.com
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It really looks like we're about to bomb Iran again My latest for
My latest for @vox.com
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the ever-slipping timelines for the nuclear modernization we're already doing is one reason I'm not super stressed about a post-New START Cold War-scale arms race www.defensenews.com/air/2026/02/...
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Earlier this year, I went to Brazil to try and answer a question: why did their Congress and Supreme Court stand up to an authoritarian while ours won't?
The answer I found helped me understand where the US had gone wrong - and what a post-Trump reform agenda needs to do www.vox.com/politics/479...
βOnly in recent decades did politicians somehow come to believe that our job is to police the far reaches of Kenya and Somalia," Trump told military last fall.
And yet, by sheer numbers, the largest military engagement of his presidency wasn't Iran, Venezuela, of Yemen, but...Somalia
I dig into the debate uncertainty around America's biggest invisible war in my latest for @vox.com www.vox.com/politics/478...
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