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1 week ago | 
fdd.org | Krystal Bermudez |Eric Edelman |Reuel Marc Gerecht |Ray Takeyh
There are many paths to regime change in Iran. In 2020, two of us (Edelman and Takeyh) wrote an essay in Foreign Affairs in which we outlined a way to topple the Islamic Republic. At that time, we assumed that the use of force was off the table and that outside powers could only gradually erode the regime’s sources of strength. Israel’s attack on Iran this month has introduced a new and volatile element into the mix, but the underlying logic remains the same.
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1 week ago | 
foreignaffairs.com | Eric Edelman |Reuel Marc Gerecht |Ray Takeyh
There are many paths to regime change in Iran. In 2020, two of us (Edelman and Takeyh) wrote an essay in Foreign Affairs in which we outlined a way to topple the Islamic Republic. At that time, we assumed that the use of force was off the table, and that outside powers could only gradually erode the regime’s sources of strength. Israel’s attack on Iran this month has introduced a new and volatile element into the mix, but the underlying logic remains the same.
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2 weeks ago | 
thebulwark.com | Eric Edelman |Eliot A. Cohen
Eliot and Eric offer up candidates for jackassery of the week before turning to a discussion of The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780, (New York: Crown, 2025) the second volume of journalist/historian Rick Atkinson's monumental military history of the American revolution.
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3 weeks ago | 
thebulwark.com | Eric Edelman |Eliot A. Cohen
Eric and Eliot discuss this week's jackassery (Joni Ernst's dismissive attitude towards Medicaid cuts, Trump's obsessive posting on Truth Social and his disconnection from reality) before moving into a discussion of the Ukrainian drone attack on Russian Long-Range Aviation and the degree to which it represents an inflexion point in military affairs. How much will future wars in different parts of the world look like what we witnessed this past weekend?
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1 month ago | 
thebulwark.com | Eric Edelman |Eliot A. Cohen
Eliot and Eric welcome Larry Summers, former President of Harvard University and former Secretary of Treasury in the Clinton Administration. They discuss why his prescient advice about the dangers of inflation were ignored by the Biden Administration and whether or not Democrats have learned the lesson that inflation affects all Americans with corrosive political effects.
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1 month ago | 
thebulwark.com | Eric Edelman |Eliot A. Cohen
Eliot and Eric welcome Edward Fishman, Senior Research Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy and Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University's SIPA program and author of Chokepoints: American Power in The Age of Economic Warfare (New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2025).
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2 months ago | 
thebulwark.com | Eric Edelman |Eliot A. Cohen
Eliot and Eric welcome Eliot's former Harvard student, Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut's 4th Congressional District and Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. They discuss the latest news about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's Signal chats that included his wife, brother and personal attorney and which featured operational details of impending attacks on Houthi terrorists in Yemen.
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2 months ago | 
thebulwark.com | Eric Edelman |Eliot A. Cohen
Eric and Eliot welcome former Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell and Rush Doshi, Assistant Professor of Security Studies at Georgetown University's school of Foreign Service and author of The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order, to discuss their article in the current issue of Foreign Affairs, "Underestimating China: Why America Needs a New Strategy of Allied Scale to Offset Beijing's Enduring Advantages." They discuss China's massive advantages of scale in the...
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Mar 7, 2025 | 
thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Peter Gattuso |Eric Edelman |Franklin Miller
This will not end well. Published March 7, 2025 Dear Reader (especially those of you deemed Null and void), Because of travel, sleep deprivation, some minor anger issues, a changing news climate, a form of writer’s block that makes the color chartreuse smell like goat cheese, the threat of CHUDs, and a flare-up in my decades-long Tong war with a radical faction of Up With People (Yes, it still exists!), I tried to write Wednesday’s G-File three times.
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Mar 7, 2025 | 
thedispatch.com | Nick Catoggio |Peter Gattuso |Eric Edelman |Franklin Miller
Trump targets Perkins Coie. Published March 7, 2025 I woke up excited to write about the day’s most important political news—before remembering that I said most of what I wanted to say on the subject a few weeks ago. Never Trumpers who work in media will face that problem every day for the next four years. Good luck finding something new and interesting to say as the president vindicates your arguments against him again and again and again.
