"Football is ours and we deserve better custodians” @davidgoldblatt.bsky.social to @tonykaron.bsky.social, @ishaantharoor.bsky.social and I about the struggle to reform #FIFA.
Ishaan Tharoor
@ishaantharoor.bsky.social
Global affairs columnist @NewYorker.com. Dad. Victoria concordia crescit.
Episode 5 of World Cup Weekly, the last one wrapping up the 2026 World Cup, is live. With @tonykaron.bsky.social @ishaantharoor.bsky.social @davidgoldblatt.bsky.social and Abdullah Al-Arian of Georgetown Qatar. Watch on YouTube.
World Cup Weekly: 'Football is ours and we deserve better custodians'
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My latest @newyorker.com column is on the intensification of MAGA's illiberal project, as seen in a flurry of recent moves and speeches by Marco Rubio, who, in recent days, renewed Trump's war with the ICC and a presided over a stunningly ideological set of attacks on the Left
I so fully agree with @ishaantharoor.bsky.social last article on @newyorker.com on his recent emotional distance from Argentinian football national team Latest news: it seems Pedro Sanchez is going to attend the Cup final. Ishaan you are welcome to cheer Spain! www.newyorker.com/news/global-...
I Won’t Cry for You, Argentina
The team is headed back to the World Cup final, but one lifelong fan has fallen out of love.
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Really lovely essay about falling in and out of love with Messi and the Argentina team by my colleague @ishaantharoor.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/global-...
I Won’t Cry for You, Argentina
The team is headed back to the World Cup final, but one lifelong fan has fallen out of love.
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I assume many will see my latest @newyorker.com column as churlish and grumpy. Fair enough. I am a lifelong Argentina fan, like tens of millions also from the Global South. But this is not the team that stirs my childhood nostalgia
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 3w agoThe team is headed back to the World Cup final, but one lifelong fan has fallen out of love. www.newyorker.com/news/global-...
If you are in Brooklyn, I will be moderating a discussion about soccer, politics, and the 2026 World Cup featuring @rorysmith.bsky.social , @simonkuper.bsky.social , @ishaantharoor.bsky.social, and @leanderalphabet.bsky.social! It's going to be a lot of fun! mcnallyjackson.com/event/2026-0...
Making Sense of the 2026 World Cup
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Got thoughts and feels about the USMNT and this World Cup? Discuss at BKLYN STUDIOS, 1 DeKalb Ave, this Thurs, June 16, w/ @goldengoalmag.bsky.social @rorysmith.bsky.social, @simonkuper.bsky.social, @ishaantharoor.bsky.social & @leanderalphabet.bsky.social Tix: mcnallyjackson.com/event/2026-0...
Making Sense of the 2026 World Cup
McNally Jackson is an independent bookstore with five New York locations.
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World Cup Weekly: Quarter-finals, “Anyone But Argentina” and football’s justice problem. With @ishaantharoor.bsky.social, @tonykaron.bsky.social and @shireenahmed.bsky.social. youtube.com/watch?v=F1jXNQdT_V0&feature=youtu.be
World Cup Weekly: Quarter-finals, “Anyone But Argentina” and football’s justice problem
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On Thursday, July 16, the friends from @goldengoalmag.bsky.social are hosting @rorysmith.bsky.social, @simonkuper.bsky.social, @ishaantharoor.bsky.social and little old me for a panel discussion about the World Cup. 7pm. McNally Jackson in Brooklyn. RSVP here: mcnallyjackson.com/event/2026-0...
Making Sense of the 2026 World Cup
McNally Jackson is an independent bookstore with five New York locations.
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This week's @newyorker.com column: On how you can read the American Revolution as a sideshow in a far greater imperial drama and why the Founding Fathers were obsessed with Hyder Ali, Sultan of Mysore www.newyorker.com/news/global-...
This week's @newyorker.com column: On how you can read the American Revolution as a sideshow in a far greater imperial drama and why the Founding Fathers were obsessed with Hyder Ali, Sultan of Mysore www.newyorker.com/news/global-...
Tomorrow at 10.30 am, World Cup Weekly is live again. With @tonykaron.bsky.social, @ishaantharoor.bsky.social and joining us, Daniel Levy. Episode One, where we were joined by Imran Garda, journalist and host of Doha Debates, is archived on Youtube. open.substack.com/live-stream/...
LIVE SOON: World Cup Weekly, Ep. 2
Starting Jul 3 at 10:00 AM EDT
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Tomorrow at 10 am EST, we launch a six-part weekly, hour-long, live World Cup conversation, hosted by @tonykaron.bsky.social and I. Our first guests are @ishaantharoor.bsky.social and Imran Garda. Supported by @rosaluxnyc.bsky.social.
LIVE SOON: World Cup Weekly with Sean Jacobs and Tony Karon (Ep.1)
Starting Jun 26 at 10:00 AM EDT
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Catch our weekly World Cup (and its politics and all else) podcast, starting tomorrow for the rest of the tournament!
Sean Jacobs@seanjacobs.bsky.social · last mo.Tomorrow at 10 am EST, we launch a six-part weekly, hour-long, live World Cup conversation, hosted by @tonykaron.bsky.social and I. Our first guests are @ishaantharoor.bsky.social and Imran Garda. Supported by @rosaluxnyc.bsky.social.
My latest in @newyorker.com, on Brexit's toxic, disastrous legacy, a decade after the referendum
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · last mo.Brexit hasn’t done what its supporters promised—but it has reshaped politics not only in the U.K. but across Europe and in the United States. www.newyorker.com/news/global-...
As we pore over the deal that's been agreed, let's not lose sight over the scale of the calamity of the past four months. This week's column in the @newyorker.com: "The Spectacular Failure and Ruinous Costs of the Iran War" www.newyorker.com/news/global-...
The Spectacular Failure and Ruinous Costs of the Iran War, by @ishaantharoor.bsky.social “It’s difficult to see what’s emerging as anything other than a humiliating climbdown for a President who started a war of choice vowing to transform the Middle East.” www.newyorker.com/news/global-...
The Spectacular Failure and Ruinous Costs of the Iran War
Even though an agreement has been reached, nations around the world will be feeling the effects of the Iran war for some time.
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As we pore over the deal that's been agreed, let's not lose sight over the scale of the calamity of the past four months. This week's column in the @newyorker.com: "The Spectacular Failure and Ruinous Costs of the Iran War" www.newyorker.com/news/global-...
"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"
Der neue Global Affairs Columnist von @newyorker.com @ishaantharoor.bsky.social war heute im Presseclub und hat mit @raimundloew.bsky.social über den Iran-Krieg, das Verhältnis USA-Israel und die US-Medienlandschaft gesprochen.
Ishaan Tharoor - Trump's Iran War and the US Media
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"Trump's Iran War and the US Media": Morgen um 10 ist Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor.bsky.social, Global Affairs Columnist des @newyorker.com, auf Einladung des @kreiskyforum.bsky.social zu Gast @concordia.at Info: concordia.at/ishaan-tharo...
Morgen kommt der frischgebackene "Global Affairs Columnist" des legendären @newyorker.com-Magazins @ishaantharoor.bsky.social zu uns in den Presseclub und wird mit @raimundloew.bsky.social über Trumps Irankrieg und die Lage der US-Medien diskutieren. 📅 16.6., 10h Anmeldung: bichl@kreiskyforum.at
My latest weekly column in the @newyorker.com, which has been dubbed "Global Notes"—so long WorldView: On the day the World Cup begins, I wrote about the undeniable gloom that surrounds it, and how the Trump-shaped shadow over the tournament can still be dispelled www.newyorker.com/news/global-...
PERSONAL NEWS: I've joined the @newyorker.com full-time as a global-affairs columnist, where I'll be writing a weekly essay on the world. It's a dream gig and I'm still pinching myself that I get to say all these incredible, talented journalists I've long admired are my colleagues!
Michael Luo@michaelluo.bsky.social · 2mo agoSome news from @newyorker.com. Welcome @jesusrodriguez.work @ishaantharoor.bsky.social!
PERSONAL NEWS: I've joined the @newyorker.com full-time as a global-affairs columnist, where I'll be writing a weekly essay on the world. It's a dream gig and I'm still pinching myself that I get to say all these incredible, talented journalists I've long admired are my colleagues!
Michael Luo@michaelluo.bsky.social · 2mo agoSome news from @newyorker.com. Welcome @jesusrodriguez.work @ishaantharoor.bsky.social!
A trend you can see a figurative mile away. No one should be blindsided by this when it does fully take hold of our politics
@tejparikh.ft.com · 2mo agoAnti-AI populism is on its way. My latest column for @financialtimes.com: Tech anxiety will be seized upon by politicians—echoing the anti-immigration rhetoric that has shaped public discourse over much of the past decade as.ft.com/r/7a960043-8...
How Dictators Use Corruption To Destroy Democracy (and Get Insanely Rich in the Process) @oslofreedomforum.com, tomorrow 14:15 - 15:15 Featuring: ACDC's @szakonyi.bsky.social with @ishaantharoor.bsky.social, Elsa Peraldi and Vadim Kleiner. oslofreedomforum.com/event/oslo-f...
Xi "believes that China is better able than the US to ‘eat bitterness’—that is, to endure hardship & emerge stronger from periods of struggle." IGP Senior Research Scholar @juliangewirtz.bsky.social quoted in @ishaantharoor.bsky.social’s piece in @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
How the Iran War Is Shifting Power Toward China
For years, China has tried to cast itself as a responsible world power and America as an imperialist one. The war in Iran is helping the Communist Party support that argument.
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