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Ben Rhodes

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This Is the Story of How the Democrats Blew It on Gaza

This Is the Story of How the Democrats Blew It on Gaza

It may be tempting to memory hole what happened in Gaza. That would only compound the mistake of ignoring, or rationalizing, an intolerable reality.

01.12.2025 40

The New York Times

Ben Rhodes

The Thread Tying Together Everything Trump Does

Whether he is negotiating a deal in the Middle East, bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela or deploying troops to American cities, it’s always...

26.10.2025 200

The New York Times

Ben Rhodes

Britain Offers a Warning of What America Could Become

Both the United States and Britain are suffering through crises of identity.

18.09.2025 50

The New York Times

Ben Rhodes

How Short-Term Thinking Is Destroying America

Supported by Guest Essay In the disquieting new film “Eddington,” the director, Ari Aster, captures the American tendency to live obsessively in...

12.08.2025 750

The New York Times

Ben Rhodes

Corruption Has Flooded America. The Dams Are Breaking.

The United States is becoming just another country with a corrupt strongman personalizing and profiting from power.

08.06.2025 400

The New York Times

Ben Rhodes

There Is a Way for Democrats to Stop Trump and Save America

The Democratic Party can’t stop America’s spiral into autocracy and oligarchy unless it casts off its stale talking points and reimagines what it...

21.03.2025 200

The New York Times

Ben Rhodes

This Isn’t the Donald Trump America Elected

He is making us a corrupted, brittle superpower.

09.02.2025 200

The New York Times

Ben Rhodes

Democrats Need a Foreign Policy That Can Work—and Win

After Donald Trump’s first election, it was easy for Democrats to cast him as an aberration from the norms and practices that had broadly oriented...

13.12.2024 4

Foreign Affairs

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Democrats Walked Into a Trap Republicans Set for Them

Advertisement Supported by Guest Essay By Ben Rhodes Mr. Rhodes was deputy national security adviser under President Barack Obama. In December 2019,...

08.11.2024 2

The New York Times

Ben Rhodes