Latest Foreign Desk on Monocle Radio looks at the degree to which the war in Iran is fracturing MAGA, at home and abroad. With @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social, @kkdumez.bsky.social and @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
To understand what just happened in Hungary (Orbán actually lost, and conceded as much), I highly recommend @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social's latest: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Viktor Orbán has been ousted—and efforts by Washington and Moscow to prop the autocratic leader up give his defeat implications that extend far beyond Hungary, @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social reports from Budapest.
Read more: theatln.tc/KdGVkPGT
Why tomorrow's election in Hungary matters so much www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Can voters oust an autocrat? @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social reports from Hungary, where the fate of Viktor Orbán will be decided this weekend in one of the most important elections in the history of postcommunist Europe.
J. D. Vance accused the European Union of meddling in a sovereign nation's election—as he stumped for Viktor Orbán. @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social reports on the vice president's Hungarian campaign swing.
Gladden Pappin, a Harvard-educated political theorist who once predicted that Melania Trump would rule the U.S. as queen, is now on Viktor Orbán's payroll. He offers the best way to understand MAGA's infatuation with Hungary. I profiled him: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
An ally of J. D. Vance who once prophesized a Queen Melania now works for Viktor Orbán’s government—and reflects the stakes of the Hungarian election for the MAGA movement, @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social reports.
Ukraine’s ambassador to Hungary may have the hardest job in Europe: He represents a government that has become Viktor Orbán’s primary target, @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social writes.
Trump is trying to appeal to Europe’s far right by backing movements and parties bent on undermining liberal democracy—but his attempts to influence elections abroad have proved to be self-defeating, @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social reports from Denmark.
After Trump’s Greenland threats, European officials warned of lasting damage to U.S. alliances. Now Trump is asking for help in the Strait of Hormuz, and allies are shrugging, Isaac Stanley-Becker reports.
Exclusive: Trump’s threats over the Nobel Peace Prize in his infamous text to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Støre brought the debate over Greenland “to a level where we don’t solve problems,” Støre told @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social and Simon Shuster:
Masterful profile of Minneapolis police chief Brian O’Hara, and a city under siege by @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Just an astonishing lede in this @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social story. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Governor Tim Walz warns of a national unraveling in an interview with @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social. “It’s worse than you think,” Walz says of the situation in Minnesota.
The Atlantic's @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social interviewed the chief of the Danish army.
"When I asked whether Danish forces would really fight back against Americans, he demurred. 'This is highly political,' he said. 'And I’m just a soldier.'"
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Emergency pod about the combing through/making sense of the Epstein Files What’s in them, what’s not, and where we go from here. feat @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social and @adriennelaf.bsky.social
A right-wing influencer claims USAID is a secret spy organization. He’s been brought into the agency to prove his theory, @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social reports.
Not long ago, plans for German rearmament would have set off international alarms. But as the United States upends the global order it created, Germany may have no other choice, @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social reports. theatln.tc/t1XLAiLM
“From my perspective as a scientist and someone who has done this her entire career, he has a lot of blood on his hands," Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, a top adviser on COVID vaccines for the CDC, told @michaelscherer.bsky.social about RFK Jr. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
something is horribly wrong when University of Chicago leadership is going "we can just get ChatGPT to teach languages"
This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.
For today’s Atlantic Daily, I wrote about some of the art that’s been on my mind: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Flattery, Firmness and Flourishes: World leaders trade tips on how to manage trip, from me + @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
On the day of Donald Trump’s military parade, Europeans are commemorating 40 years of borderless travel on the continent. @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social on how the European gathering in Schengen showcases a different vision of international order:
NEW: Future Foward, the super PAC backing Kamala Harris, thought her campaign made strategic errors that may have cost her victory. Harris strategists felt the same about Future Forward. Inside the breakdown w/
@ashleyrparker.bsky.social
GIFT LINK: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Sean Duffy’s Department of Transportation agreed to spend $2 million to figure out if DEI is causing plane crashes—and put a celebrity defense attorney who has represented Elon Musk in charge of the probe. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
“I’ve been on the phone with Trump before, and he’s just said, ‘I’ve got to go. I have someone from another country calling.' He doesn’t even know which country. He just sees the number and thinks, 'This might be a foreign leader I want to talk to.'” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
A lede for the ages, via @michaelscherer.bsky.social @ashleyrparker.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Steve Witkoff, Trump's primary diplomat and "Real Secretary of State" has been getting up to speed on history by watching our series TURNING POINT: The Vietnam War. Crazy detail from this excellent profile by @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social
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