Ishaan Tharoor
@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!
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Column | Trump’s embrace of ‘remigration’ echoes Europe’s far right
The term “remigration” probably entered President Donald Trump’s orbit via the politics of ascendant far-right parties in Germany and Austria.
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Martin Sellner, the Austrian neo-Nazi who popularized the term "remigration," showed off a screenshot to my colleagues of a Trump social media post, using the word. He said that Trump’s borrowing of the term was a “vindication” of his own political project.
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Martin Sellner, the Austrian neo-Nazi who popularized the term "remigration," showed off a screenshot to my colleagues of a Trump social media post, using the word. He said that Trump’s borrowing of the term was a “vindication” of his own political project.
Free link: wapo.st/48rVum6
The great @jonawils.bsky.social on the World Cup: "Every other World Cup host has said to most of the rest of the world, 'please come to our country.' Whereas the US appears actively hostile to outsiders. And I think a lot of people feel pretty uncomfortable just about the idea of going to the US."
December 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The great @jonawils.bsky.social on the World Cup: "Every other World Cup host has said to most of the rest of the world, 'please come to our country.' Whereas the US appears actively hostile to outsiders. And I think a lot of people feel pretty uncomfortable just about the idea of going to the US."
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On the release of Juan Orlando Hernández and the glaring ‘hypocrisy’ behind Trump’s war on drugs
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On the release of Juan Orlando Hernández and the glaring ‘hypocrisy’ behind Trump’s war on drugs
Free to read: wapo.st/446rLOm
Column | The glaring ‘hypocrisy’ behind Trump’s war on drugs
The Trump administration’s pardon of convicted drug trafficker Juan Orlando Hernández raises questions about its war on “narcoterrorism.”
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December 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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On the release of Juan Orlando Hernández and the glaring ‘hypocrisy’ behind Trump’s war on drugs
Free to read: wapo.st/446rLOm
On the release of Juan Orlando Hernández and the glaring ‘hypocrisy’ behind Trump’s war on drugs
Free to read: wapo.st/446rLOm
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Why fight with Venezuela if you free from prison a convicted Latin American leader who worked with Mexican cartels to stuff American noses with cocaine? www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1... @ishaantharoor.bsky.social
Column | The glaring ‘hypocrisy’ behind Trump’s war on drugs
The Trump administration’s pardon of convicted drug trafficker Juan Orlando Hernández raises questions about its war on “narcoterrorism.”
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December 3, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Why fight with Venezuela if you free from prison a convicted Latin American leader who worked with Mexican cartels to stuff American noses with cocaine? www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1... @ishaantharoor.bsky.social
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Here's @ishaantharoor.bsky.social with the longer story, including the murder of human rights activist Berta Caceres, who I had the privilege of translating for on a US tour and who was brutally murdered in 2016.
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Analysis | The crisis in Honduras should matter to the U.S.
Amid protests and allegations of voter fraud, the disputed Honduran election ought to echo in Washington.
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December 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Here's @ishaantharoor.bsky.social with the longer story, including the murder of human rights activist Berta Caceres, who I had the privilege of translating for on a US tour and who was brutally murdered in 2016.
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NEW: Not only has the Trump admin disinvited South Africa from next year's G-20 Summit, but it's gutted the organization's website and removed South Africa's documentation and the reports tied to this year's summit. Instead, you just have this picture of Trump.
December 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
NEW: Not only has the Trump admin disinvited South Africa from next year's G-20 Summit, but it's gutted the organization's website and removed South Africa's documentation and the reports tied to this year's summit. Instead, you just have this picture of Trump.
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From latest:
Martin Sellner, the Austrian neo-Nazi who popularized the term "remigration," showed off a screenshot to my colleagues of a Trump social media post, using the word. He said that Trump’s borrowing of the term was a “vindication” of his own political project.
Free link: wapo.st/48rVum6
Martin Sellner, the Austrian neo-Nazi who popularized the term "remigration," showed off a screenshot to my colleagues of a Trump social media post, using the word. He said that Trump’s borrowing of the term was a “vindication” of his own political project.
Free link: wapo.st/48rVum6
Column | Trump’s embrace of ‘remigration’ echoes Europe’s far right
The term “remigration” probably entered President Donald Trump’s orbit via the politics of ascendant far-right parties in Germany and Austria.
wapo.st
December 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
From latest:
Martin Sellner, the Austrian neo-Nazi who popularized the term "remigration," showed off a screenshot to my colleagues of a Trump social media post, using the word. He said that Trump’s borrowing of the term was a “vindication” of his own political project.
Free link: wapo.st/48rVum6
Martin Sellner, the Austrian neo-Nazi who popularized the term "remigration," showed off a screenshot to my colleagues of a Trump social media post, using the word. He said that Trump’s borrowing of the term was a “vindication” of his own political project.
Free link: wapo.st/48rVum6
From latest:
Martin Sellner, the Austrian neo-Nazi who popularized the term "remigration," showed off a screenshot to my colleagues of a Trump social media post, using the word. He said that Trump’s borrowing of the term was a “vindication” of his own political project.
Free link: wapo.st/48rVum6
Martin Sellner, the Austrian neo-Nazi who popularized the term "remigration," showed off a screenshot to my colleagues of a Trump social media post, using the word. He said that Trump’s borrowing of the term was a “vindication” of his own political project.
Free link: wapo.st/48rVum6
Column | Trump’s embrace of ‘remigration’ echoes Europe’s far right
The term “remigration” probably entered President Donald Trump’s orbit via the politics of ascendant far-right parties in Germany and Austria.
wapo.st
December 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
From latest:
Martin Sellner, the Austrian neo-Nazi who popularized the term "remigration," showed off a screenshot to my colleagues of a Trump social media post, using the word. He said that Trump’s borrowing of the term was a “vindication” of his own political project.
Free link: wapo.st/48rVum6
Martin Sellner, the Austrian neo-Nazi who popularized the term "remigration," showed off a screenshot to my colleagues of a Trump social media post, using the word. He said that Trump’s borrowing of the term was a “vindication” of his own political project.
Free link: wapo.st/48rVum6
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Column | Trump’s embrace of ‘remigration’ echoes Europe’s far right
The term “remigration” probably entered President Donald Trump’s orbit via the politics of ascendant far-right parties in Germany and Austria.
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December 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Trump’s embrace of ‘remigration’ echoes Europe’s far right by @ishaantharoor.bsky.social
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"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true
November 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true
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Yuli Novak, executive director of B'Tselem, fears the return of a status quo where Israel can carry on with “much less criticism, because there is the facade of things being okay.” In the meeting of Trump and Mohammed, you can see the edifice behind that facade rising.
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Column | As Trump hosts MBS, Palestinian plight fades from view again
Neither a political process endorsed at the United Nations nor deepening U.S.-Saudi ties change the bleak reality for Palestinians on the ground.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Yuli Novak, executive director of B'Tselem, fears the return of a status quo where Israel can carry on with “much less criticism, because there is the facade of things being okay.” In the meeting of Trump and Mohammed, you can see the edifice behind that facade rising.
My latest:
wapo.st/4idIxRC
My latest:
wapo.st/4idIxRC
Yuli Novak, executive director of B'Tselem, fears the return of a status quo where Israel can carry on with “much less criticism, because there is the facade of things being okay.” In the meeting of Trump and Mohammed, you can see the edifice behind that facade rising.
My latest:
wapo.st/4idIxRC
My latest:
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Column | As Trump hosts MBS, Palestinian plight fades from view again
Neither a political process endorsed at the United Nations nor deepening U.S.-Saudi ties change the bleak reality for Palestinians on the ground.
wapo.st
November 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Yuli Novak, executive director of B'Tselem, fears the return of a status quo where Israel can carry on with “much less criticism, because there is the facade of things being okay.” In the meeting of Trump and Mohammed, you can see the edifice behind that facade rising.
My latest:
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My latest:
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"Neither the political process endorsed at the United Nations nor deepening U.S.-Saudi ties change the bleak reality for Palestinians on the ground," writes @ishaantharoor.bsky.social today in his WorldView column for the @washingtonpost.com.
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Column | As Trump hosts MBS, Palestinian plight fades from view again
Amid a fragile ceasefire in Gaza, the challenges facing Palestinians have apparently become secondary concerns for Saudi and U.S. leaders.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
"Neither the political process endorsed at the United Nations nor deepening U.S.-Saudi ties change the bleak reality for Palestinians on the ground," writes @ishaantharoor.bsky.social today in his WorldView column for the @washingtonpost.com.
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More than 200,000 Iraqi civilians were killed in the wake of the post-9/11 wars writes @ishaantharoor.bsky.social, citing our research.
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Column | Dick Cheney’s Iraq War legacy lives on
The former vice president is outlived by the cascading consequences of a war he defended to the last, even as Republican politics shifted.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
More than 200,000 Iraqi civilians were killed in the wake of the post-9/11 wars writes @ishaantharoor.bsky.social, citing our research.
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"Kazakhstan’s entry into the pact, which could formally happen in December, appears to be more about courting Trump with a symbolic gesture than forging Middle East peace."
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Column | Kazakhstan’s curious journey to the Abraham Accords
The news that Kazakhstan would be the latest state to join the U.S.-brokered normalization deals between Israel and a clutch of Arab states furrowed many eyebrows.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:32 AM
"Kazakhstan’s entry into the pact, which could formally happen in December, appears to be more about courting Trump with a symbolic gesture than forging Middle East peace."
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“The clash that Mamdani’s victory sets up is not one of civilizations. Rather, it’s of competing visions of the world — one anchored in Trump’s angry nationalist project and the other in Mamdani’s global city.”
I’ll take the latter any day.
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I’ll take the latter any day.
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Column | Mamdani’s global city clashes with Trump’s nationalist project
Liberal mayors of major cities around the world have found themselves at odds with ascendant far-right populists. Mamdani will undoubtedly face a similar fight.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
“The clash that Mamdani’s victory sets up is not one of civilizations. Rather, it’s of competing visions of the world — one anchored in Trump’s angry nationalist project and the other in Mamdani’s global city.”
I’ll take the latter any day.
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I’ll take the latter any day.
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@ishaantharoor.bsky.social on the NYC election:
"The clash that Mamdani’s victory sets up is not one of civilizations. Rather, it’s of competing visions of the world — one anchored in Trump’s angry nationalist project and the other in Mamdani’s global city."
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"The clash that Mamdani’s victory sets up is not one of civilizations. Rather, it’s of competing visions of the world — one anchored in Trump’s angry nationalist project and the other in Mamdani’s global city."
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Column | Mamdani’s global city clashes with Trump’s nationalist project
Liberal mayors of major cities around the world have found themselves at odds with ascendant far-right populists. Mamdani will undoubtedly face a similar fight.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
@ishaantharoor.bsky.social on the NYC election:
"The clash that Mamdani’s victory sets up is not one of civilizations. Rather, it’s of competing visions of the world — one anchored in Trump’s angry nationalist project and the other in Mamdani’s global city."
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
"The clash that Mamdani’s victory sets up is not one of civilizations. Rather, it’s of competing visions of the world — one anchored in Trump’s angry nationalist project and the other in Mamdani’s global city."
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.
November 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.
In the shadow of Sudan’s misery, President Donald Trump has done conspicuously little. He insists he’s the world’s greatest peacemaker — claiming credit for resolving conflicts that, in some instances, are either still raging or never existed in the first place.
November 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
In the shadow of Sudan’s misery, President Donald Trump has done conspicuously little. He insists he’s the world’s greatest peacemaker — claiming credit for resolving conflicts that, in some instances, are either still raging or never existed in the first place.
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"In the shadow of Sudan’s misery, President Donald Trump has done conspicuously little.....The White House was more focused on gutting USAID, an agency that propped up critical elements of the humanitarian complex aiding Sudanese people."
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Column | Sudan’s war takes horrific turn, as Trump looks away
The White House loves quick deals and photo-ops, but there’s no simple solution to ending the war in Sudan.
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October 31, 2025 at 12:54 PM
"In the shadow of Sudan’s misery, President Donald Trump has done conspicuously little.....The White House was more focused on gutting USAID, an agency that propped up critical elements of the humanitarian complex aiding Sudanese people."
By @ishaantharoor.bsky.social.
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@ishaantharoor.bsky.social channels everybody who watched Turkey's descent into pure authoritarianism and is now watching Trump do the same damn things in this piece
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Column | Before Trump gutted the White House, Erdogan built his ‘White Palace’
As long as there’s been human civilization, there have been leaders with vanity projects.
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October 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
@ishaantharoor.bsky.social channels everybody who watched Turkey's descent into pure authoritarianism and is now watching Trump do the same damn things in this piece
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Elon Musk's Twitter in one image
October 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Elon Musk's Twitter in one image
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100%. And by the way, that is generally true in all dictatorships-in-the-making
ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.
October 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
100%. And by the way, that is generally true in all dictatorships-in-the-making
What do Taylor Swift songs accomplish that K-Pop Demon Hunters’ do not? And the latter has the charming virtue of being adored by children, not adult cultists.
October 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
What do Taylor Swift songs accomplish that K-Pop Demon Hunters’ do not? And the latter has the charming virtue of being adored by children, not adult cultists.
Question for the Bluesky nerderati: What's the most egregious invocation of Sparta / macho ancient Greek iconography or history that you've seen in modern 21st century politics?
October 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Question for the Bluesky nerderati: What's the most egregious invocation of Sparta / macho ancient Greek iconography or history that you've seen in modern 21st century politics?
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Trump declares a new ‘dawn’ in Middle East. It could be a false one. wapo.st/476s1gN
Trump declares a new ‘dawn’ in Middle East. It could be a false one. wapo.st/476s1gN
Column | Trump declares a new ‘dawn’ in Middle East. It could be a false one.
With the victory lap over, now comes thorny issue of building a genuine peace.
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October 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Trump declares a new ‘dawn’ in Middle East. It could be a false one. wapo.st/476s1gN
Trump declares a new ‘dawn’ in Middle East. It could be a false one. wapo.st/476s1gN