Michael Hirsh

The VERY mixed legacy of Alan Greenspan: foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/22/ala…

#Trump's #Iran war follows the pattern of his whole business career: He always overreaches. That's why his companies went bankrupt six times. This war is just another bankruptcy: foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/18/ira…

#Trump's and #Netanyahu's disastrous war against #Iran will damage U.S. projection of power for years to come: foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/18/ira…

Far from being won, the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran has actually strengthened the regime in Tehran both internationally and domestically—at least for the moment: foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/12/moh…

#Rubio invoking international law to force open the Strait of Hormuz takes hypocrisy to a new level...

I asked Secretary Hegseth a straightforward, yes or no question today: Is Donald Trump mentally stable enough to be Commander in Chief? He didn't say yes. And that speaks volumes.

Military historians say #Iran is following the strategy of Hanoi during the Vietnam War while #Trump is repeating the mistakes of LBJ:foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/23/ira…

#Iran is gaining the upper hand over #Trump by borrowing from Hanoi's basic playbook during the Vietnam War: Hold out long enough and inflict enough pain to exhaust the aggressor: foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/23/ira…

The Biggest Lesson from the #IranWar‌: the only way to fight #Trump is to hurt him economically: foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/08/the…

How @#Iran learned that Trump's Achilles' heel is the markets: foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/08/the…

Why the nation-state no longer works--and what to do about it: foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/27/boo…

Just as he once put his brand on skylines and cityscapes, #Trump now wants to do the same to the entire global order. But history shows that Trump always overreaches: foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/10/tru…

And here's one more analogy to the Iraq war: Like #GeorgeWBush back then, #Trump could have declared victory without a war. Like #Saddam, the Iranians were prostrate. But he decided to invade anyway: foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/27/why…

Never been a better illustration of Lord Acton's timeless observation that "absolute power corrupts absolutely" than #DonaldJTrump and his unnecessary attack on #Iran

How a quarter century of "forever war" has inured Democrats and even Europeans to U.S. aggression: foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/27/why…

@FareedZakaria nails the essence of what #Trump is really destroying: foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/30/tru…

Even as #Trump figures he can do what he wants without the rest of the world, a new consensus is emerging elsewhere: We can do what we want without #America: foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/28/int…

#Trump seems intent on destroying the “rules-based international order,” but it may prove stronger than he—or anyone else—realizes: foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/28/int…

The #Minneapolis murder is Kent State, at the very least. If @realDonaldTrump keeps it up this could even someday turn into Lexington and Concord.

@ForeignPolicy's @KFJ_FP and @christinafei deliver the most definitive account yet of the mind-boggling blunders of one @realDonaldTrump: foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/20/tru…