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Daniel Block

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Senior editor @ForeignAffairs. Formerly: the Washington Monthly, The Caravan, @PhillyInquirer, Swarthmore. Onetime ski instructor.

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Daniel Block @danblock.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
How might the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran end? And what will happen to the regime and the region when it does? To find out, I spoke @osto.bsky.social and Sanam Vakil for this week’s episode of the @foreignaffairs.com podcast: www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/ira...
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Iran’s Tenacious Regime and the Future of the Gulf
Conversations With Afshon Ostovar and Sanam Vakil
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Daniel Block @danblock.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
If Iranians respond to America’s attacks by rising up and overthrowing the Islamic Republic, it will be the first time in history that a U.S. bombing campaign incited a revolution. Me in @politico.com: www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Will Iranians Rise Up? Here Are the Odds.
Iranians despised the Ayatollah. That doesn’t mean they’ll side with the United States.
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Daniel Block @danblock.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The United States has gone to war with Iran, and Donald Trump says the goal is to overthrow the regime. Here are the many, many ways this could go terribly wrong: www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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You Might Not Like What Comes Next in Iran
Chances of a democratic transition are slim.
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Politico @politico.com · 15/01/2026
ANALYSIS: You might not like what comes next in Iran, writes Foreign Affairs editor Daniel Block. "The regime has ruthlessly snuffed out its competition, making it impossible to cleanly replace. What comes next may therefore not be better. In fact, it could be worse."
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You Might Not Like What Comes Next in Iran
Chances of a democratic transition are slim.
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Daniel Block @danblock.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
It's easy to see why many want Trump to attack Iran and topple the government. The regime is horribly violent and corrupt. But there's nothing bad that can't be worse, so I wrote for @politico.com about why you might hate what follows the Islamic Republic: www.politico.com/news/magazin...
politico.com
You Might Not Like What Comes Next in Iran
Chances of a democratic transition are slim.
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Daniel Block @danblock.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
As Iranians flood the streets to protest the Islamic Republic, Reza Pahlavi has presented himself as Iran's next leader. He's called for demonstrations. He's asked Trump to intervene. I profiled Pahlavi—and what his controversial efforts might yield—for @politico.com:
politico.com
The Son of the Last Shah Wants to Be the Next Leader of Iran
Reza Pahlavi has a famous name but whether he has enough support inside the country to rise to power is unclear.
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Daniel Block @danblock.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
What do Venezuelans want, now that Maduro is gone? And what does their future actually hold? To find out, I spoke with Francisco Rodríguez for @foreignaffairs.com:
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Venezuela After Maduro
A conversation with Francisco Rodríguez.
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Justin Vogt @jvogt.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Read @danblock.bsky.social on what Western media outlets can learn from The Caravan, an Indian magazine, about what to do when the state comes after the free press. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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News Organizations Are Bowing to Trump. This Small Magazine Knows How to Resist.
U.S. media outlets could learn some lessons from The Caravan.
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Daniel Block @danblock.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
To see how American journalists can survive Trump's autocratic onslaught, I collected advice from people with extensive, first-hand expertise: reporters in India. My latest for @politico.com: www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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This Small Magazine Knows How to Survive a Trump-Like Strongman
The Caravan and other Indian outlets have some lessons for the U.S. media.
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Daniel Block @danblock.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The son of Iran’s shah wants to come back and lead his old country. Some people think it’s a great idea. Others think it’s awful. And many think it’s impractical—but that his efforts are endangering Iran and the world. Me in @politico.com: www.politico.com/news/magazin...
politico.com
The Son of the Last Shah Wants to Be the Next Leader of Iran
Reza Pahlavi has a famous name but whether he has enough support inside the country to rise to power is unclear.
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Daniel Block @danblock.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
What does Israel's attack mean for the Middle East? And will the United States also end up striking Iran? To find out, @foreignaffairs.com spoke with Daniel Shapiro, the former assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East: www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/dan-sha...
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How War Between Iran and Israel Could Escalate—and Drag In the United States
A conversation with Daniel B. Shapiro.
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Daniel Block @danblock.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Canada’s Liberals are the most successful progressive party in the Western world, and possibly the whole world. Me for @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
theatlantic.com
The Liberals Who Can’t Stop Winning
Trump isn’t the only reason Canada’s center-left has stayed in power.
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Daniel Block @danblock.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
"In 2025, worrying about the fate of American democracy has become almost passé." -Steven Levitsky and @lucanway.bsky.social, on how the resistance has gone away when it's needed most. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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The Path to American Authoritarianism
What comes after democratic breakdown.
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Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · 17/01/2025
In a Q&A with Senior Editor Daniel Block, @abuaardvark.bsky.social considers what the Gaza cease-fire will mean for the Israelis, the Palestinians, and the Middle East.
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Will the Gaza Cease-Fire Last?
A conversation with Marc Lynch.
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Daniel Block @danblock.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
After months of devastation and tens of thousands of deaths, Israel and Hamas have a ceasefire agreement. What does it mean, and what comes next? To find out, I spoke with Marc Lynch for @foreignaffairs.com: www.foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/...
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Will the Gaza Cease-Fire Last?
A conversation with Marc Lynch.
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Justin Vogt @jvogt.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
An amazing lede to a great essay by my friend and colleague @danblock.bsky.social. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 12/01/2025
“The Park City strike illustrates just how distorted the American ski business has become, both for workers and for visitors,” writes Daniel Block. “Central to the malaise is one trend: monopolization”:
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Big Ski Is Trying to Snow You
A recent strike at a major resort has put the spotlight on what a bad deal both workers and visitors are getting.
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Daniel Block @danblock.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
I don't normally write about personal stuff. But in the wake of the Park City strike, I had to. Here's what it's like to work at a large ski mountain, and how corporations have made the sport worse. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Big Ski Is Trying to Snow You
A recent strike at a major resort has put the spotlight on what a bad deal both workers and visitors are getting.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12/01/2025
here’s a utopian idea for the future: North America Schengen Zone
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Anne S Kim @anne-s-kim.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The "winners" of the 2024 Lown Institute's Shrkeli Awards for health care profiteering include UnitedHealthcare; an air ambulance company that charged $97,599; and a University of North Texas facility that allegedly sold body parts without notifying next of kin. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Annual ‘winners’ for most egregious US healthcare profiteering announced
Selling body parts without consent and billing desperate parents $97,599 for air transport among worst examples
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Bill Scher @billscher.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
“Ten New Ideas for the Democratic Party to Help the Working Class, and Itself.” From @glastris.bsky.social in the new issue of the @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social washingtonmonthly.com/2025/01/05/t...
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Ten New Ideas for the Democratic Party to Help the Working Class, and Itself. | Washington Monthly
This package of essays is not an exercise in political “messaging.” It is an effort to provide the policy scaffolding of a new liberalism.
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Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
A great story on economist soul-searching from @bencasselman.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/b...
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Economists Are in the Wilderness. Can They Find a Way Back to Influence? (Gift Article)
Economists have long helped to shape policy on issues like taxes and health care. But flawed forecasts and arcane language have cost them credibility.
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Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
seems like a pretty ripe time for someone to introduce a new photo and/or social video app
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Saahil Desai @saahildesai.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
"Mom just told me that her friend sent her some new photographs: My childhood home, which she and my Dad built together in Topanga Canyon, may be gone." Such a moving essay by @nancywalecki.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
theatlantic.com
‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This’
The Palisades Fire is destroying places that I’ve loved.
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
A pretty standard bit of conventional wisdom over the past 10+ years: moving to the left on immigration policy might lose you some white voters, but it'll sure win you a lot of Latino voters. The second part turns out to maybe never have been true. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Democrats’ Disastrous Misreading of Latino Public Opinion
They spent more than a decade tacking left on immigration to win Latino votes. It may have cost them the White House—twice.
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Oh, this is very cool: The Atlantic now has a feature—that red "Follow" link on the author page—allowing you to sign up for email alerts for any writer you want. Like, oh, I don't know ... www.theatlantic.com/author/gilad...
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
The only thing I would add to this nice little parenting essay is that the advice applies to the rest of life, too. Enjoy things while they're happening! www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...
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Parents, Put Down Your Phone Cameras
In trying to capture so much of our kids’ lives, we risk missing out.
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Kanishk Tharoor @kanishktharoor.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
The truth is that men aren’t thinking about the Roman Empire, or the Middle Ages, they’re thinking about @mikeduncan.bsky.social’s chronicle of a fictitious revolution on Mars.
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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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Kori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
This data-rich @foreignaffairs.com piece by Michael Beckley is the best explanation I've seen of American politics, both foreign and domestic. The sources of our strength are also, increasingly, the sources of our dysfunction.
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The Strange Triumph of a Broken America
Power abroad comes with dysfunction at home.
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Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · 12/01/2025
“Money alone will not prepare communities for weather of historic extremes.” To build resilience to climate-fueled disasters, governments must think strategically about how to reduce devastation, argued Alice Hill in a 2023 essay.
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The Age of Climate Disaster Is Here
Preparing for a future of extreme weather.
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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 09/12/2024
Mets superfan — and Cavs star — Donovan Mitchell is PUMPED that Juan Soto is heading to Queens.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 06/12/2024
“Violinists have the Stradivarius. Sneakerheads have the Air Jordan 1. Pizza degenerates like me have the Ooni.” @saahildesai.bsky.social on his singular, pointless quest to make the best pie possible:
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It’s the Best Time in History to Be a Pizza Sicko
My quest to make the perfect at-home pie
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Kanishk Tharoor @kanishktharoor.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Congrats to the winners of @foreignaffairs.com’s best books of the year, including @himself.bsky.social @radchenko.bsky.social @mireyasolis.bsky.social @dahliasc.bsky.social Saleha Mohsin, Nathan Thrall, Adam Shatz, Joya Chatterji, Simon Shuster, and Anna Reid. www.foreignaffairs.com/lists/best-b...
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The Best of Books 2024
This year’s top picks from Foreign Affairs’ editors and reviewers.
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Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · 05/12/2024
On the latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” Mara Karlin discusses how the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East are transforming the nature of warfare. Start listening here: fam.ag/4ijYGEB
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Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · 05/12/2024
“India is not nervous about a Trump administration,” writes @tanvimadan.bsky.social. “New Delhi is more prepared for the president-elect than it was in 2016. It has accumulated experience in dealing with Trump and his team.”
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India Is Hoping for a Trump Bump
Modi will seek greater alignment with Washington—but more autonomy, too.
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Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · 09/12/2024
In this list, explore the very best of the hundreds of books on international politics, economics, and history that were featured in the magazine this year, selected by Foreign Affairs’ editors and book reviewers:
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The Best of Books 2024
This year’s top picks from Foreign Affairs’ editors and reviewers.
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Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
i think people are going to have a really hard time accepting that higher turnout wouldn't have helped Kamala Harris. Motivating/mobilizing as many voters as possible has just been core to Democratic strategy for my whole adult life www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/b...
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Daniel Block @danblock.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
If successful, Yoon Suk Yook's martial law declaration would make South Korea the first developed, wealthy democracy to become an outright dictatorship. (At least I think.) Americans should pay attention. 1/2
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Daniel Block @danblock.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
India won't get stronger by pointlessly angering its friends.
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How a Strongman Made Himself Look Weak
Narendra Modi has picked a needless fight with the United States and Canada.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 30/11/2024
“For Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, strength is everything. At home, that means repressing minorities and co-opting the press,” writes Daniel Block. Abroad, it may mean “political assassinations on friendly soil,” despite the reputational toll on India:
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How a Strongman Made Himself Look Weak
Narendra Modi has picked a needless fight with the United States and Canada.
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Daniel Block @danblock.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Trying to hire an undercover DEA agent to kill someone on U.S. soil is not the best strategy for empowering your country. Me in @theatlantic.com, on the Indian government's seemingly pointless efforts to assassinate Sikhs separatists.
theatlantic.com
How a Strongman Made Himself Look Weak
Narendra Modi has picked a needless fight with the United States and Canada.
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Anne S Kim @anne-s-kim.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Holiday shopping season too often means holiday scams if you're poor. Here's an ad for "refund advance loans" aimed at low-income taxpayers. A *four-week* loan for $1,500 costs $110.95 in interest - not including tax prep and other fees. www.jacksonhewitt.com/refund-advan...
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Kanishk Tharoor @kanishktharoor.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Very true. Have been so grateful for the thoughtful notes I’ve received from readers, even critical ones!
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Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
got to work with the amazing Today, Explained team today for their new episode on volunteering. Hear from me, Robert Putnam, my mom… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Why volunteering is worth it
Podcast Episode · Today, Explained · 11/27/2024 · 25m
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Absolutely eye-popping result from a survey conducted by @dyudkin.bsky.social and @stephen-hawkins.bsky.social. Americans generally believe that Democrats are obsessed with LGBT issues—but it's not true. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Bill Scher @billscher.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
“Some current and former staffers further argued the vacancies contributed to obstacles for the Trump administration, such as shortcomings that created openings for legal challenges against oil-drilling plans”
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Paul Glastris @glastris.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Trump will enter office just as Putin is threatening to use a powerful new intermediate range missile that was banned by a treaty that Trump, in his first term, abandoned. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1... @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social
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What Putin’s nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile means for NATO security
The Russian leader’s use of the missile against Ukraine sends a powerful signal about his intention to weaken NATO and bend Europe’s security architecture to Russia’s will.
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Justin Vogt @jvogt.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Full essay here: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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How Biden Can Salvage Middle East Peace—and His Legacy
A lame-duck agenda to save Palestinian lives and bolster Israel’s long-term security.
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Justin Vogt @jvogt.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
An impassioned call from @jonahblank.bsky.social to his old boss, Joe Biden, to show some compassion for the Palestinians and take three steps before his term ends to ease their suffering and help secure Israel's long-term security.
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