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Dec 2, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Flagg Taylor |Razib Khan |Yascha Mounk |Kenneth M. Pollack
The Monday Essay Vladimir Kara-Murza embodies principled resistance against tyranny. Published December 2, 2024 Vladimir Kara-Murza won’t quit. The Russian politician and dissident has been poisoned on two occasions—once in 2015 and again in 2017. In April 2022, he was convicted of “high treason” for speeches he had delivered, two of which criticized Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Katherine Dee |Seth Masket |Melissa S. Kearney |Kenneth M. Pollack
Published October 21, 2024 When Donald Trump picked J.D. Vance as his vice presidential running mate back in July, the predictable scrutiny a vice presidential nominee typically gets quickly devolved into a very online spectacle. Desperate journalists rifled through the Ohio senator’s digital trash, analyzing it and then analyzing it again in search of past misdeeds.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Kenneth M. Pollack
Many analysts watching the conflict in the Middle East have warned that the present fighting could escalate further. At the moment, such fears are concentrated on the prospect of a war between Iran and Israel. Of course, that war is already underway.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
almendron.com | Kenneth M. Pollack
Many analysts watching the conflict in the Middle East have warned that the present fighting could escalate further. At the moment, such fears are concentrated on the prospect of a war between Iran and Israel. Of course, that war is already underway. Iran has launched two direct attacks on Israel, while Israel has carried out one strike in response and is almost certainly preparing a second.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Kenneth M. Pollack
Many analysts watching the conflict in the Middle East have warned that the present fighting could escalate further. At the moment, such fears are concentrated on the prospect of a war between Iran and Israel. Of course, that war is already underway.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
aei.org | Kenneth M. Pollack
While it is always hard to know how Iran’s leadership sees any particular situation in the moment, I suspect that Tehran experienced the past year like a drunken skier: a euphoric, messy upward climb, followed by a frightening, out-of-control tumble down. The year began well for the Iranians. From their perspective, Hamas’s sickening attack on Israel on October 7 was a dream come true.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Nick Catoggio |Alex Demas |Peter Gattuso |Kenneth M. Pollack
Elon Musk and the arc of right-wing media. Published October 7, 2024 How do you prepare someone to be lied to? I spent an hour on Sunday warning two devout Fox News viewers that they won’t be able to trust what their favorite network tells them next month if Donald Trump loses the election. Especially the evening hosts: There might be some sobriety during the daylight hours when no one’s watching, but the highly rated Watters-Hannity-Ingraham bloc will be pure storytime.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
aei.org | Kenneth M. Pollack
When Hassan Nasrallah ordered his Hezbollah minions to begin firing rockets at Israel—just a day after October 7, 2023, when the Jewish state suffered devastation from Hamas’ barbaric terrorist attack—he likely did not imagine what a strategic error he was making. A year later, Nasrallah is dead and Hezbollah is essentially decimated, with its rocket arsenal quickly depleting under a relentless Israeli assault.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Jamie Weinstein |Charlotte Lawson |Kenneth M. Pollack |Grant Lefelar
The balance of power in the Middle East, one year after October 7. Published October 7, 2024 Jamie Weinstein is joined by Dan Senor—author of The Genius of Israel and host of the Call Me Back podcast—to discuss the future of governance in Gaza, what the death of Hezbollah leadership means for Israel and Iran, and why he remains optimistic for Israel’s future.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Kenneth M. Pollack |Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib |Mary Trimble |Grayson Logue
The Monday Essay What Israel, its rivals, and the world have learned from the latest Middle East war. Published October 7, 2024 When Hassan Nasrallah ordered his Hezbollah minions to begin firing rockets at Israel—just a day after October 7, 2023, when the Jewish state suffered devastation from Hamas’ barbaric terrorist attack—he likely did not imagine what a strategic error he was making.
