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Steve Inskeep
@NPRinskeep
Still on the air @NPR. Author of Differ We Must, a NY Times bestseller. https://t.co/l9DXNpdKdO
Washington, DC Katılım Şubat 2010
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Longtime observer of Iran:
Vali Nasr@vali_nasr
I write in @FT that Iran’s leaders suspected that the MoU was a temporary retreat by the US, intended to relieve pressure on the global economy and prepare for another round of war. Iran’s current rulers believe that any display of restraint will only invite further American pressure. To deter the US, and to compel it to negotiate in earnest for an end to the war and a broader nuclear deal that would give Tehran the security and economic relief it craves, they believe Iran has to be aggressive and escalate the conflict beyond what the US is prepared to countenance. The one point of leverage Iran is not prepared to part with is its claim to the Strait of Hormuz and its ability to control access to it. Losing dominance in the strait would leave Iran without any leverage in future negotiations. Iran’s leaders have decided that retaining control of the strait is essential to securing future wins at the negotiating table and ensuring that the US implements the deal rather than walking away from it. ft.com/content/22fdb2…
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Former Trump special counsel Ty Cobb tells me of tonight's Trump speech: "I think tonight's speech is intended to add to the predicate that he needs to declare an emergency at or about the time of the elections. ... Steve Bannon and Todd Blanche have suggested that there will be ICE agents at the polls. I think that that's a virtual certainty, whether that will include the National Guard or not."
PBS News@NewsHour
For perspective on what the president is trying to achieve with tonight's speech, the limits of his authority and the potential consequences for future elections, we turn to Ty Cobb, an attorney who served as special counsel during the first Trump administration. @GeoffRBennett spoke with him a short time ago.
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Bill Maher, at 70, received a Mark Twain award and says he’s staying healthy thanks to “the best tequila” and “the best pot”:
npr.org/2026/07/15/nx-…
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On NPR’s Newsmakers: The influential pastor who believes most women should be denied the vote.
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Full statement from NPR Editor in Chief Tommy Evans on retracted Alito report
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From the Navy SEAL officer who planned and executed the Bin Laden raid: “In recent months, President Trump, upon advice from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, has relieved or forced the retirement of some of the finest officers that have ever served this nation. I have personally worked with most of them in combat….And this week, in an egregious decision, the president forced General Chris Donahue to step down from his position in command of U.S. Army Europe. Donahue is without question one of the most brilliant officers I know. He is strategically focused, tactically aggressive, personally courageous, exceptionally thoughtful in his planning and execution, and compassionate with his troops. He has the respect of every man and woman who ever served with him—and you can put me at the top of that list.”
Greg Jaffe@GregJaffe
ADM McRaven: “I can tell you from experience that Generals C. Q. Brown, Randy George, Jim Mingus, J. P. McGee, Dave Hodne, Jim Slife, and Joe Berger and Admirals Lisa Franchetti and Jamie Sands were war fighters through and through” theatlantic.com/national-secur…
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As a journalist, how does @NPRinskeep think about mission and values?
"I'm a citizen, who would like to be informed, who would like to inform myself and inform my fellow citizens as to what's going on in the world," he recently told Pew President and CEO Sue Urahn.
Watch 👇
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The message to Congress seems to be: The president will keep in office a man lawmakers regard as an unqualified election conspiracy theorist, until they vote to endorse election conspiracy theories.
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The NPR interview with Israel’s Michael Leiter:
npr.org/2026/06/16/nx-…
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Trump: “Israel’s fighting Hezbollah too long, and too many people are being killed.”
Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. this morning told NPR Israel is determined to stay in South Lebanon. Link in the next post. 1/2
Rapid Response 47@RapidResponse47
.@POTUS on Israeli military action in Lebanon: "You don't have to knock down an apartment house every time you're looking for somebody, because there are a lot of people in those apartment houses, and they're not all Hezbollah."
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Here is the full NPR interview with @yechielleiter
npr.org/2026/06/16/nx-…
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In an NPR interview, Israeli Ambassador Michael Leiter says Israeli forces are not leaving Lebanon as part of a peace deal:
“We’re not going to withdraw from southern Lebanon.”
Iran claimed Israel must withdraw.
Will post full interview here shortly.
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Beyond that, the Americans did an incredible job of storytelling. They transformed a disappointing and destructive conflict into a great patriotic war, an affirmation of nationhood.
Steve Inskeep@NPRinskeep
The announcement of a tentative peace agreement in the U.S. war against Iran sent me looking for the text of another inconclusive peace deal: The Treaty of Ghent, which ended the War of 1812 with no measurable gain. The parallels are helpful to consider. 1/3
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Read more of of the parallels - along with a surprise in the outcome of the War of 1812: Americans turned out to be incredible storytellers, and changed the meaning of the war.
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Whatever the exact war aims—and the cloudiness of those aims was surely part of the problem—the war didn’t achieve them. American troops fought, sometimes well and often badly. The Treaty of Ghent, concluded through negotiations in Belgium in December 1814, explicitly said that everything was to be put back the way it was before.
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The announcement of a tentative peace agreement in the U.S. war against Iran sent me looking for the text of another inconclusive peace deal: The Treaty of Ghent, which ended the War of 1812 with no measurable gain. The parallels are helpful to consider.
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There’s a memorial service today in NY for Penguin Press publisher Ann Godoff. Speakers include just a few of her authors: Michael Pollan, Zadie Smith, Ron Chernow, Elif Batuman, Jerome Groopman, Ocean Vuong.
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What is @NPRInskeep excited about as he looks ahead at the next 250 years of U.S. democracy?
"I'm gonna keep learning, and I hope that other people do, too. I hope that people keep learning about their fellow ... human beings," he recently told Pew President and CEO Sue Urahn.
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