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Damir Marusic

Washington, D.C.

Assignment Editor at Washington Post Opinions

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Assignment Editor, @PostOpinions. Co-founder of @WCrowdsLive. My opinions are my own, and should not discourage you from pitching me.

Articles

  • 3 days ago | washingtonpost.com | Chris Suellentrop |Damir Marusic |Hadley Robinson |Regina de Heer

    After much hemming and hawing, President Trump joined the Israeli attack on Iran over the weekend. He’s now declared a ceasefire, but it’s off to a shaky start. So was the U.S. bombing a success and what’s next in the Middle East? Can the current leaders in Iran and Israel ever actually come together?

  • 5 days ago | washingtonpost.com | Damir Marusic |Jason Rezaian |Jason Willick

    Will the U.S.-Iran conflict spin out of control? (washingtonpost.com) Will the U.S.-Iran conflict spin out of control? By Damir Marusic; Jason Rezaian; Jason Willick 2025062220255100 You're reading the Prompt 2025 newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox. One day after President Donald Trump ordered attacks on Iranian targets to thwart their nuclear program, facts are still scarce about how effective the strikes have been.

  • 1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | Chris Suellentrop |Damir Marusic |Hadley Robinson |Regina de Heer

    “Try This” is a series of fun, low-pressure audio courses designed to provide fresh and practical approaches to life’s everyday challenges.

  • 1 week ago | wisdomofcrowds.live | Damir Marusic |Shadi Hamid |Sohrab Ahmari

    The Israel-Iran war is about to enter its sixth day. As of this recording — Wednesday evening, June 18 — President Trump has not announced whether the United States will join the Israeli war effort. During this unpleasant lull, and invited to discuss what we can expect from the war and its aftermath. In recent days, Sohrab has emerged as an essential commentator on the Iran Israel war.

  • 1 week ago | wisdomofcrowds.live | Damir Marusic

    As the Israel-Iran war has worn on, there has been a lot of hand-wringing about whether Israel’s attack on Iran was preemptive or preventive. The former is “legal” and the latter is not under modern theories of international law. I don’t think the distinction really matters in large part because I’m a skeptic of international law, which I tend to see as little more than retroactive moralizing rhetoric by preening Western liberal powers.

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Damir Marusic
Damir Marusic @dmarusic
9 Jun 25

RT @BrunoTertrais: Useful piece.

Damir Marusic
Damir Marusic @dmarusic
9 Jun 25

RT @WarMonitor3: Israel has transferred Patriot systems, which were previously in service with the Israeli army, to Ukraine.

Damir Marusic
Damir Marusic @dmarusic
9 Jun 25

Who dares mock Ganesh-stanning?

James Marriott
James Marriott @j_amesmarriott

Often mocked for my Janan Ganesh worship but here he is in 2019 referring to the British class system as a "mille-feuille of social gradations" . . . imagine just casually dropping that in half-way down an opinion column https://t.co/hA8LXxNzVj