Tim O'Brien

Trump rushed into a deadly war with Iran without a complete game plan. Not a surprise — he’s done it this way his entire life — but still another reminder that his White House is inhabited by a wrecking crew: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

On Musk’s $158 billion payday: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Oh dear, the curse of The Economist's oil cover: "... Why oil prices are not yet high enough..." You know what that means, don't you?

A suicide note purportedly written by Jeffrey Epstein in a Manhattan jail has been kept secret for nearly seven years, locked up in a New York courthouse. nytimes.com/2026/04/30/us/…

Completely ruthless and craven. “After halting a U.S. resettlement program for Afghans who helped the American war effort, President Trump is in talks to send as many as 1,100 of them to the Democratic Republic of Congo.” nytimes.com/2026/04/21/wor…

Trump has never been good at geography. Even when it comes to countries he’s bombing and blockading. Where is the Strait of Iran?

TONIGHT: @TimOBrien talks to @Lawrence on The #LastWord at 10pm ET. wsj.com/business/media…

Totally normal:

VIDEO COLUMN: All what you wanted to know about the Strait of Hormuz. My @Opinion visual op-ed about the world's most critical waterway; it shipping lanes, and why the strait may never return to its pre-war status. (Originally published April 10th)

First, Iran, now Hungary. Quite a losing streak for JD Vance and the White House. Is he going to Greenland next?

The things you say when you’re cornered in Iran — and you put yourself in the corner:

Trump says the US will now block the Strait of Hormuz after failed peace talks with Iran. He’ll never learn. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

When you decide to take in a UFC match while your vice-president is overseas announcing that the US and Iran have failed to reach a peace agreement.

Schooling Trump about how the world really works has been a bloody, perilous and expensive proposition. And everyone else is bearing the misery and cost. A column: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

“Yes, Iran has learned an important lesson that [Hormuz] is a lever… but that lesson is not gonna be missed by its rivals in the Persian Gulf,” @JavierBlas says. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

“There will be fallout — economic fallout, diplomatic fallout. The Gulf states will have to reconsider a lot of basic assumptions that they’ve made about their security positions,” @MarcChampion1 says. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

"Even the more skeptical members of Mr. Trump’s war cabinet - with the stark exception of Mr. Vance, the figure inside the White House most opposed to a full-scale war - deferred to the president’s instincts, including his abundant confidence that the war would be quick and decisive.” nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/…

JD Vance in Hungary: "Fundamentally, the military objectives of the United States have been completed, so that means, as the president has said, very shortly this war is going to conclude."

The highest quality video of the moon was just released… this is so beautiful.