Ishaan Tharoor
@ishaantharoor
Global affairs columnist @WashingtonPost, anchor of The Post's WorldView column on int'l politics. Dad. New Yorker. Media requests: [email protected].
Incredibly honored to be the recipient of the 2021 Arthur Ross Media Award in commentary
Ishaan Tharoor's keen and nuanced analysis of global politics in the Washington Post's daily column and newsletter Today's WorldView attracts a huge daily audience of readers from around the world. @ishaantharoor @washingtonpost
It's clear – Israel now has a plan for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza | Opinion | Gideon Levy haaretz.com/opinion/2025-0…
The General Union of Palestinian Journalists in UK condemns the heinous attack by Hamas militias on three Palestinian journalists in Khan Yunis, Gaza.
Why would someone be proud of their skin or blood? I have to imagine they have nothing else to be proud of, not even a scrabble triple word score.
Imagine being an Indian living in America via the UK, claiming American citizenship while speaking with an English accent, telling a White founding stock American with 400+ years of ancestry here he's not a native. The brown chutzpah LARP from Medhi Hasan here is incredible.
An email from UNRWA, with some lines from a colleague in Gaza: “We’re in the death phase. Everything around people at the moment is death, whether it’s bombs or strikes, children wasting away in front of their eyes from malnourishment, from dehydration, and dying.”
🚨AFP issues a statement saying this is the 1st time in their entire history their journalists on the ground face death by starvation
"Had Mamdani lost to Cuomo by 12 points, the entire Democratic Establishment, from Chuck Schumer and Kathy Hochul on down, would have automatically backed Cuomo and blasted apart the socialist assemblyman for attempting a third-party bid." nymag.com/intelligencer/…
The dam of Gaza genocide denial has well and truly broken. While Israel’s supporters in the West still reject the charge, many media outlets are coming off the fence. Genocide scholar @martinshawx reflects on this shift in the discourse for @newlinesmag. newlinesmag.com/argument/the-d…
I really can’t believe this. A retired head teacher was arrested in the UK for carrying a poster of this satirical message in Private Eye.
A great visual project by my colleagues on the risk of disaster facing the world's most famous church/mosque washingtonpost.com/world/interact…
‘Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs”’ per allegations in a report from @hrw .
What I learned covering the abuses at Abu Ghraib in Iraq is that a system that encourages treating people like animals will eventually end up with abuse. A reminder most of those being held have not committed any crimes. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
A intimidação de Trump contra o Brasil está saindo pela culatra, por @ishaantharoor via @washingtonpost wapo.st/4kYWDpK
Great reporting and synthesis of where things stand from @ishaantharoor
My latest column Trump's bullying of Brazil is backfiring, spectacularly A senior Brazilian diplomat told me: Bolsonaro and his allies “got what they worked for — a severe threat against the whole country and its economy — and now not only part of their voters, but especially…
“I did not blame myself for leaving. My conscience did not judge me. There was only a quiet failure to grasp why surviving is so bitter.” —Doha Kahlout on leaving Gaza go.nybooks.com/44OQdVn
My latest column Trump's bullying of Brazil is backfiring, spectacularly A senior Brazilian diplomat told me: Bolsonaro and his allies “got what they worked for — a severe threat against the whole country and its economy — and now not only part of their voters, but especially…
Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.