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David Rothkopf

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Iran’s Nuclear Program Could Speed Up After Strikes With Israel

There are many creatures in the animal kingdom—from weasels to spotted skunks to ostriches—that perform a dance to intimidate their enemies. This...

19.04.2024 7

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

U.S. Must Pull Out All the Stops to Avoid a Regional War After Iran Attacks Israel

Iran launched an attack on Israel Saturday that was apparently designed by Iran to be both dramatic and ineffective. It was dramatic, because in the...

14.04.2024 50

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Donald Trump’s Pathetic and Dangerous Foreign Policy Reboot

Donald Trump, over the past few weeks, has grown more vocal about what his foreign policy would look like in a second administration. You might even...

11.04.2024 80

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Biden Should Suspend Offensive Military Aid to Israel Immediately

Outrage and indignation from the President of the United States and his aides, no matter how great, no matter how many times expressed or leaked to...

05.04.2024 40

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Israel Risks Dire Consequences After Two Deadly Airstrikes

Within 24 hours, two Israeli strikes occurred on targets that could not be more different. Both however, have the possibility of dramatically altering...

03.04.2024 30

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

In This Brutal, Divisive Election Year, Choose Optimism

Bernard Schwartz was the last person in my life to regularly refer to me as “kid.” When in the course of our many collaborations over the past two...

27.03.2024 2

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Benjamin Netanyahu Defying Biden’s ‘Red Line’ Would Be a Disaster

Benjamin Netanyahu has brought the U.S.-Israel relationship to the breaking point. The tensions between the Biden administration and Netanyahu’s...

11.03.2024 3

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Trump Embraced an Authoritarian the Day After Biden Fiercely Defended Democracy

Within a 24-hour period, the 2024 presidential campaign kicked off in a way that could not present the choice before the American public more starkly....

09.03.2024 30

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Kamala Harris Finally Finds Her Voice. Hopefully, Biden Follows.

While the Biden administration is extremely disciplined in terms of the foreign policy messages delivered by the president and the various members of...

06.03.2024 2

New Republic

David Rothkopf

The Biden Administration’s Going All-In on Its Push for a Gaza Ceasefire

The clock is ticking. The Biden administration has gone all-in on its efforts to bring the fighting in Gaza to a halt. The increasingly emphatic U.S....

05.03.2024 5

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Supreme Court Picks Up Where the Jan. 6 Mob Left Off

I don’t think most Americans realize how close we are to losing everything we most value about our system of government. It is not just that the...

01.03.2024 30

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Biden and Netanyahu Both Hope the Other Is Out of Power Soon

This week, U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demonstrated yet again why theirs is the foreign policy world’s...

29.02.2024 30

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

A Vote for Trump Is a Vote for Putin—and a World in Danger

We are dramatically understating the threat Donald Trump and the MAGA movement pose to the security of the United States, Europe and the world. It is...

23.02.2024 100

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Trump Is Telling Us He’s an Enemy of the American People

12.02.2024 3

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Democrats Have to Stop Living in Denial About Biden’s Age

Democrats are in need of a reality check. The stakes are too high for us to indulge in the kind of denial, self-deception, and illusions that are a...

12.02.2024 20

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

MAGA Republicans’ Foreign Policy Is Trump First, America Last

Don’t let the incompetence of the Republican Party distract you from the profound damage they are doing to our country. The MAGA movement may be bad...

07.02.2024 9

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

A Gaza Ceasefire Deal Is the Only Way to Avoid a Wider War

It is inevitable that much of the discussion in Washington, D.C. regarding the drone attack on a small U.S. military base on the Jordanian-Syrian...

30.01.2024 4

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

It’s Time for President Biden to Take Back Control of the Texas Border

MAGA Republican immigration policy is no longer just a series of cynical, cruel, ill-considered, half-baked, ham-fisted, pig-headed political stunts,...

25.01.2024 5

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

The GOP Is Actively Supporting Russia’s Ukrainian Genocide

If you want to debate the merits of whether using the phrase “from the river to the sea” is genocidal now that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin...

19.01.2024 7

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

U.S. and U.K Striking Back at Houthis After Their Red Sea Attacks Was the Right Call

For many Americans, hearing that the United States had engaged in a military action like Friday morning’s joint strikes with the British against the...

12.01.2024 5

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Voters Are the Last Line of Defense Against a Trump Dictatorship

It has been three years since Jan. 6 and we still do not know how the coup attempt turned out. While the insurrection that was orchestrated by...

06.01.2024 40

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Biden Administration’s Relationship With Netanyahu Government Has Turned Toxic

The relationship between the Biden administration and the Netanyahu government in Israel has nearly reached the breaking point. It is highly...

21.12.2023 7

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

The GOP’s Refusal to Fund Ukraine’s Defense Is an Absolute Scandal

The damage has been done. The message has been sent. Russia’s fifth column, also known as the MAGA Republicans, have placed a giant question mark...

14.12.2023 30

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Canceling University Presidents Won’t End Antisemitism

Hate speech is a scourge. Combatting it is an important goal of any society. Speech that incites violence or creates a threatening environment cannot...

11.12.2023 9

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Kamala Harris Revealed What the U.S. Wants to See After the Israel-Hamas War Is Over

Since the onset of the current war in Gaza, as an integral part of the small inner circle of senior administration officials guiding the U.S....

05.12.2023 20

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Henry Kissinger’s ‘Celebrity’ Could Only Happen in America

Henry Kissinger was the celebrity statesman of the century in which he lived. That was his doing as much as it was the consequence of the media age in...

30.11.2023 5

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

How Biden’s Israel Mistakes May Actually Help the U.S. Restrain Netanyahu

The close Israeli ally with which America once shared key values no longer exists. The Israel to whose defense Joe Biden immediately stepped up on...

30.11.2023 10

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Dutch Far-Right Takeover Is a Terrifying Shock for Europe

Despite the Netherlands’ reputation as one of the world’s leading liberal societies, the holiday season in that country has long been a time when...

24.11.2023 10

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Biden Skillfully Handled Xi Jinping’s U.S. Visit in Ways Trump Simply Never Could

Had Donald Trump been the U.S. president hosting this week’s APEC meetings, I have no doubt that the headline from the event would have been...

17.11.2023 8

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Republicans Are Fighting a War on Democracy All Over America

That sound you hear, which sounds suspiciously like jackboots, is the Republican Party marching out of the closet and proclaiming its opposition to...

15.11.2023 50

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Biden and Netanyahu Look Headed for a Breakup on Unqualified U.S. Support for the Gaza War

A reckoning is coming for the Biden’s administration’s partnership with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government in Israel. While the...

02.11.2023 20

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Here’s Why Mike Johnson Is More Dangerous Than Donald Trump

The most dangerous movement in American politics today is not Trumpism. It is Christofascism. With the election of Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) as Speaker...

26.10.2023 3

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Biden’s Israel Trip Was a Gamble That’s Already Paying Off

President Joe Biden’s trip to Israel was a gamble. With it, he became the first U.S. president to travel to that country while it was at war....

18.10.2023 2

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

The War’s Just Started, But Benjamin Netanyahu Has Already Lost

The crisis triggered by Hamas’ savage attacks on Israel on Oct. 7 is at a very delicate stage. As Gaza awaits a full-scale Israeli invasion, Iran...

15.10.2023 10

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

It’s Dangerous for the U.S. to Give Israel a Blank Check to Assault Gaza

Standing by Israel in the wake of this past weekend’s horrific attacks was the right thing for the Biden administration to do. Hamas committed...

10.10.2023 5

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Hapless Netanyahu Was Totally Unprepared for Attack

The sudden and massive attack unleashed by Hamas against Israel on Saturday, has its roots in a long history of conflict. It may seem to echo past...

07.10.2023 4

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

A Broken Congress Is What MAGA Always Wanted

There have been MAGA true believers shitting on the floor of the Congress ever since Jan. 6, 2021. But the right wing’s active desecration of the...

05.10.2023 3

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

All That Drama and the House GOP’s Only Win Was for the Kremlin

Had the great Maya Angelou been alive to witness Saturday’s climax of the omnishambolic dog’s breakfast of a misbegotten legislative process that...

01.10.2023 100

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Ask the GOP Debaters if They Support Trump’s Open Fascism

Donald Trump lost his damn mind this weekend. Or to be more accurate, he revealed more clearly than usual the madman wannabe dictator that lurks...

26.09.2023 100

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

The UN’s Big Week of Leaders Meeting Sent an Ominous Message to the World

For one week each year, as world leaders gather in New York for the United Nations General Assembly meetings, the biggest stories in international...

22.09.2023 2

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Antony Blinken and the Many Low-key Successes of the Biden Administration’s Foreign Policy

What if the media appetite for flash, big personalities, and buzzy stories had exactly nothing to do with governing? It is not a new phenomenon. The...

13.09.2023 3

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

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