CEO of @InGlobalAffairs, a nonprofit housed at @eurasiagroup.
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Today, Iran threatened a new US attack would provoke Iranian strikes beyond the Middle East.
IRGC says it will attack "in places you cannot even imagine."
🚨 Even before this, our new survey, out yesterday, found 2x as many think the war is making US less safe as more safe.🧵
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We won a podcast award! None Of The Above took Gold in News & Politics at the 2026 @signalawards.
(The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart took Silver 🫡)
Thanks to the people behind the pod, especially our producer extraordinaire Eloise Cassier, our outstanding guests, and to everyone who listens. More episodes TK.
@InGlobalAffairs @PodcastNOTA
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Such an important message for students suddenly daunted - and many likely discouraged - by how much faster than they AI can retrieve, synthesize, and analyze info.
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Excited to share that None Of The Above is a finalist for the 2026 @signalawards!
Such an honor to be recognized alongside such an outstanding group of podcasters.
Please vote for us in the News/Politics category by Oct. 15. 🗳️
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do americans think the iran war is a mistake?
52%: yes
30%: no
18%: undecided
- @inglobalaffairs
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"President Donald Trump has not been a positive force for the US this year, and many of his administration’s policies don’t bode well for the future. But by weakening America, Trump may strengthen the rest of the world," argues IGA Board Chair @zacharykarabell in @washingtonpost
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it’s extraordinary that a president who won election—twice—promising no new wars has for nearly six months been completely consumed by a new war entirely of his choosing.
Ds lose popular support when they valorize institutions over the people who populate them.
Institutions are stable and protect power structures. People are dynamic & contest power.
Party leaders take a risk when they value parties over the people who build (& rebuild) them.
I say this with no ill will or animosity: if you hate the Democratic Party, then please don’t run for our nomination.
Don’t use our resources. Don’t rely on our volunteers. Don’t use our infrastructure. Don’t ask Democrats to invest their time, money, and energy in your campaign.
Focus on building the party you actually support.
Political parties aren’t perfect, but they’re built by millions of people who knock doors, make calls, organize meetings, and fight for the values they believe in. If you don’t believe in the party, then don’t ask its members to carry you across the finish line.
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From @CrisisGroup statement on the US/Iran deal:
“Regardless of the memorandum’s contents, the war’s ambiguous end carries a clear lesson: wars of choice, launched based on inflated threats and wishful thinking, are far more likely to deepen than to solve the problems they purport to address.
The specific lesson regarding Iran is also difficult to escape. After years of deploying every available coercive tool, from suffocating sanctions to military force, diplomacy remains the only approach that has delivered positive results. That reality argues for taking it more seriously this time round, not less.”
crisisgroup.org/stm/middle-e…
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Samantha Power to WBUR: "...I wish I would have been able to travel into Gaza and not just to the checkpoints where humanitarian assistance and so forth was getting blocked. And I think it's really hurt US decision-making not to be able to actually be in Gaza to see what those living conditions were like for Palestinians." wbur.org/hereandnow/2026/06/…
Here is the article, which gets at how intelligence hawks are trying to play the Pulte nom, but how it reveals some contradictions at the heart of their support for FISA 702 reauthorization.
prospect.org/2026/06/11/pult…
Per @shashj, Ukraine & Iran are wars "instigated by the leaders of great powers in the apparent belief of easy victory.
Both have developed in ways those leaders did not anticipate into something like a stalemate... [in which] a lack of victory looks increasingly like defeat...
Are technological changes making the role of the defender easier? Or systematically encouraging big powers to start wars they cannot win?
Or is this merely a case of business as usual – great powers blundering into ill-advised wars that reflect the prevailing tech of the day?"
Read the full trenchant essay in @TheEconomist here:
economist.com/interactive/es…
"In the history of air power, there's not a single example of air power alone achieving regime change."-@ka_grieco talks to @mideastXmidwest on @PodcastNOTA. 🎧
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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City leaders are on the front lines of mitigating homeland threats as the Iran war drags on, argues IGA senior advisor Leigh O'Neill in @Newsweek.
newsweek.com/gaps-in-homelan…
From Leigh O'Neill: "As the U.S. engages in the largest military conflict since the Iraq War, a new survey by @InGlobalAffairs finds twice as many Americans think the Iran war made the U.S. less safe as say it's made the country safer.Â
Americans are right to be worried; security officials are warning of increased threats from Iran inside the U.S...