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Michael Hirsh

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Senior correspondent at Foreign Policy. Author of Capital Offense: How Washington's Wise Men Turned America's Future over to Wall Street..Newsweek, Politico Mag

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Michael Hirsh
5 years
Daily Beast notes that after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov returned home from his visit with Trump--in which he was photographed hovering over Trump in the Oval Office--"TV channel Rossiya 1 aired a segment entitled “Puppet Master and ‘Agent.'’'
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Michael Hirsh
2 years
#PutinsWar is a bigger crisis than Hungary '56, Czech '68, Saddam's Kuwait invasion, and Milosevic's genocide, among others. Here's why:
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
But only one of them is running for president....
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The Boston Globe
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Kelly Ayotte says she wouldn’t want her daughter in a room with Donald Trump or Bill Clinton
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
The Scots' cursing out of Trump is nothing less than poetry. Why can't we swear like this?
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Michael Hirsh
10 months
Some hard facts must be faced: #Netanyahu has spent his career denying #Palestinians any rights and prospects for statehood--even buiilding up #Hamas at the expense of the Palestinian Authority--while wooing the Arab states. Now it's blown up in his face:
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Michael Hirsh
10 years
Matt Taibbi uncovers a genuine smoking gun in the biggest financial fraud in history(for which NO ONE has yet paid): http://t.co/YT8YKQM6Q8
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Michael Hirsh
3 years
@arappeport @maggieNYT His 1994 law sent millions to jail for drug offenses...
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
ok, let's have a dumb and dumber contest. i nominate @KatrinaPierson for dumbest thing said in the campaign so far:
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
Can Comey order the cancellation of those 40 million early votes that have been cast since his original misleading letter? No, he can't.
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
It's time to ask honestly if it's possible to support Trump and still be a decent, normal, intelligent human being:
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Michael Hirsh
6 years
Building on some great reporting by @TimOBrien and others, my deep dive into how Russian and former Soviet republic money rescued Trump's business:
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
All TV cable channels are showing Trump's empty podium as they wait for him to confirm Obama is American--cable is an incurable abomination.
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
great story
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
The brilliant @yvessmith delivers the most detailed case yet why progressives hate Hillary--and might vote Trump:
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
There should be a law against what is known as "cable news"
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Norman Ornstein
8 years
MSNBC all Trump and NEW announcement on birtherism. Nothing on @kurteichenwald blockbuster on Trump foreign holdingsPlayed like Stradivarius
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Michael Hirsh
7 years
Not sure the FBI likes being called a 'joke' by Trump today considering how aggressive they are in stopping terror:
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
In an anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim campaign, this is the best antidote possible:
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𝙔𝙤𝙨𝙚𝙛 𝙍𝙖𝙥𝙖𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩
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I'm an Orthodox Jewish Immigrant My vote is private. Dedicated in honor of US CPT Khan, his devotion makes (religious) freedom possible
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Michael Hirsh
2 years
More than anything else we're seeing--except the loss of Ukraine itself--Finland's joining NATO would mark a strategic disaster for Putin:
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Michael Hirsh
7 years
Wouldn't be surprised if those all-important poll numbers were behind today's "many sides" comment. Holding onto his base by his fingernails
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Jackie Calmes
7 years
Trump's approval rating is in the mid-to-hi 30s. How much would it fall if he'd condemned white nationalists as any predecessor would have?
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
Today's @realDonaldTrump tweetstorm is a terrifying glimpse of what his presidency would be like.If he wins I'm taking my kids to Antarctica
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Michael Hirsh
6 years
Donald Trump was failing as a businessman--and then a lot of money from Russia and other former Soviet republics bailed him out:
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
yes, emetic
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Ross Douthat
8 years
A speech to make Republican elites feel sickened (as they should be) by what their party has nominated.
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Michael Hirsh
5 years
Today's bipartisan Senate report goes into great detail on Russian meddling efforts. Why won't #Trump admit it? Maybe because of this:
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Michael Hirsh
3 months
@FareedZakaria was one of the first to describe the conflict between #China and the #USA as a "Cold Peace" rather than "Cold War, and the evidence is he's still correct:
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Michael Hirsh
5 years
There is now substantial evidence that Boeing and the FAA were playing down the serious problems pilots were having with its automatic software on the 737 Max 8:
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
It's clear the Trumpites are totally yanking our chain. Romney's views the opposite of Trump's on Russia and he called Trump names in March.
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Michael Hirsh
7 years
@CillizzaCNN Because she blew the easiest victory in US presidential history. And still can't bring herself to correctly analyze or admit why.
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
Trump's tweets vindicate the best line from @HillaryClinton : A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons
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Michael Hirsh
4 years
As we make peace with the #Taliban Taliban after 18 years of exhaustion, master strategist David Kilkullen compares Bush's diversion from the main task in Afghanistan to Hitler's decision to invade the USSR, which cost him WWII:
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Michael Hirsh
9 years
Bernie tries to defend Snowden, and gets meager applause. So much for the NSA as a broad populist issue. Not gonna happen. #DemDebate
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
Now that Comey says no case against Clinton, @realDonaldTrump is back to calling the election 'rigged' again...
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Sahil Kapur
8 years
TRUMP in Minneapolis, MN just now: "You have to understand, it's a rigged system, and she's protected."
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
The great @juliaioffe on whether Trump is Putin's Manchurian candidate: .
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
Don't get overconfident Hillary: the Founding Fathers might agree with Trump more than with you on foreign policy:
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
Trump and Sanders are symptoms of a societal illness--the embrace of a flawed economic paradigm by both parties:
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
We shouldn't have any illusions. What @brooks_rosa experienced is now a permanent condition in America:
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
Yes, and if @HillaryClinton loses this election, it will be because she failed to really take up the Sanders/Warren message to voters.
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Jeff Greenfield
8 years
This 2 minute Trump "Closing" ad is astonishing--80% of it could have been said by Bernie Sanders or Sen. Warren
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Michael Hirsh
10 years
Former CIA director Hayden tells me torture report is wrong: the Bush White House knew about the torture all along. http://t.co/oqnGhQ86Rg
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
It's time to ask: Who is NOT in the running to be Trump's sec of state? Raise your hands....
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Ben Jacobs
8 years
David Petraeus in the running to be Trump's secretary of state
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Michael Hirsh
7 years
Surprising perspicacity from within the Washington media bubble: yes, indeed, Trump's 'shithole' comment was exactly what much of America thinks but won't say, and they like him for it:
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
congrats @KatrinaPierson , for continuing to outdo yourself with historical illiteracy and sheer idiocy:
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
When are we going to start listening to @NormOrnstein ?
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Michael Hirsh
10 years
This story's so powerful that I really wonder if Jeb can survive it. Read: http://t.co/BjIGSWCo2V
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Michael Hirsh
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The problem #Biden skeptics have with his #NATOSummit news conference is that he showed his mastery of foreign policy and, just btw, also delivered a powerful brief for his presidency in simple, clear terms:
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Michael Hirsh
3 years
#Biden 's #economicrecoveryplan didn't come out of nowhere. The inside story of how a 78-year-old 'transitional' president is upending the American economy:
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
Offensive? Yes, but @realDonaldTrump is tapping into a foreign policy tradition that goes back to the Founders:
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Michael Hirsh
4 years
It didn't end with the movie. Why haven't more people paid attention to this man for the past 50 years? The legendary Serpico speaks to @ForeignPolicy :
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Michael Hirsh
10 years
Very striking how Obama has moved in John McCain's direction over the last month: http://t.co/aklTebpDro
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Michael Hirsh
5 years
Interesting that they're attacking Harris more than Biden, the front-runner
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Ezra Klein
5 years
Harris seems very unsteady tonight.
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
So are we seeing a conflict not just between the FBI and DoJ over handling the emails, but also //within// the FBI?
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
J Edgar Hoover would love this legacy
@NormOrnstein
Norman Ornstein
8 years
This is hilarious. Segue from rogue FBI agents relying on Schweitzer book to Fox relying on Ed Klein. Dick Morris has to be next!
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
That's the ticket. Trump meant the 'power of unification' -- 2nd Amend people will back him. So why did he say it will be a 'horrible day'
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
Preparing the groundwork for his non-concession tonight?
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Kyle Griffin
8 years
Trump just said on Fox he's heard reports of voter fraud: "It's happening at various places...It's been reported."
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Michael Hirsh
4 years
This is no anniversary to celebrate. How #DonaldTrump started a new nuclear arms race:
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
@juliaioffe does a great job of explaining why Cruz looked so damn confident dissing Trump; he had a lot of support:
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Michael Hirsh
5 years
My take on the deeper significance of Iowa:
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
Jared and Aryeh are helping to set up an alt-right network that will call for their extermination. Nice going, boychicks.
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Julia Ioffe
8 years
Jared Kushner already putting out feelers to create a Trump TV network post-November.
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
the real story of Humayun Khan, who was an even more remarkable man than his parents have said:
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Kyle Griffin
8 years
How long till Trump rips into the Khans again?
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
There is hope on July 4 when historians are finally starting to comprehend the catastrophe that was George W. Bush:
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Michael Hirsh
11 years
I guess it's nice that the NYT has 'confirmed' what some of us have been writing for more than a year about Benghazi: http://t.co/3l8By51Q7Z
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
What if @realDonaldTrump doesn't just lose the WH but loses his biz thru brand destruction and lawsuits, and then is charged w sex assault?
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Ben White
8 years
Not often you see a mental breakdown play out on a such big national stage.
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Michael Hirsh
9 years
Are the fundamentals of our democracy changing before our eyes, without us even realizing it? http://t.co/dhSO4e6v7a
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
Top @realDonaldTrump defense advisor says George W. Bush created ISIS with the Iraq war. He's right:...
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Michael Hirsh
1 year
The new #GPT models in advanced #intelligence do more than threaten the educated class (in the way #robotics once threatened blue collar workers). They will also utterly transform geopolitics:
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Michael Hirsh
3 years
@nahaltoosi A few of us are:
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Michael Hirsh
5 years
I cite @BCAppelbaum 's excellent new book. The Economists' Hour, in this assessment of how America's mainstream economists helped lead to the rise of Trump:
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Michael Hirsh
9 years
Ex-CIA honcho goes into detail with me on the alleged damage done by Snowden, and how it might have led to Paris:
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
Republicans savaged Obama for 8 years for 'apologizing for America.' What Trump just said about America is far worse
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Dan Senor
8 years
To GOP: Please consider how we would react if Obama said something so contemptuous of America & our moral authority to lead in the world 2/2
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
If this @morningmoneyben piece doesn't scare the crap out of everyone who covered the '08 crash, it should:
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Michael Hirsh
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FP ace Pentagon correspondent @laraseligman reports that the Syria withdrawal was only the final straw for Mattis. He'd been toying with resignation for months:
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Michael Hirsh
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Despite the horrors of the #Gaza war, a diplomatic solution for #Israel may come from a strange place: the antipathy of the Arab states for the #Palestinians . So says one of America's most-experienced diplomats in the #Mideast :
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Michael Hirsh
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@realDonaldTrump appears to have lost the entire GOP foreign-policy establishment. Who will he hire if elected?
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Michael Hirsh
3 years
#Kerry tells me: “I don’t fly on the family jet. I fly commercially.” Kerry added that he and his family are trying to set a green example. “I drive an electric car. I use a solar field to power my house.”
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Michael Hirsh
8 years
If @RalstonReports is right, this is the biggest news of the weekend:
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Michael Hirsh
4 years
Want some news that isn't related to #coronavirus ? How Trump gave in to the Taliban:
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