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Huss/ein Banai

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Associate Professor of International Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington. Books on liberalism, democracy, human rights, Iran, and US-Iran relations. Working on a book on enmity in politics. Co-Editor, Int'l Studies Review. hussbanai.info

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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Like with all Carney speeches, the diagnosis is more interesting that the solution. The section on social media is strong and striking. Worth a watch. (Also I am all for a “superpower with better manners”).
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Huss/ein Banai @hbanai.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This has such a strange retro-vibe to it, circa late-90s, early-aughts
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Huss/ein Banai @hbanai.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Really urge everyone to look at the cross-tabs of the Times/Sienna poll. On nearly every issue, the Party ID responses clearly demonstrate just how much a cult-like hold Trump has on the super-majority of Republicans. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Cross-Tabs: September 2026 Times/Siena Poll of the Likely Electorate
Results of a New York Times/Siena poll conducted among 1,503 voters from Sept. 8 to 13, 2026.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 14/09/2026
About 300 CEOs and senior executives from some of the world's biggest investment firms will descend on the Four Seasons in Yorkville, a tony Toronto enclave of high-end restaurants and designer boutiques, for Carney's Canada Investment Summit this week. to.pbs.org/4xqS5i1
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Carney pitches Canada to global investors amid trade war with Trump
Carney is pitching Canada's energy and critical minerals, educated workforce, global trade access and political stability as reasons to invest.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/09/2026
Opponents in Iran derailed a peace agreement with the U.S. with a clandestine effort to attack ships in the Strait of Hormuz, regime insiders say. Iran’s president was furious when he found out.
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How Iran’s Hard-liners Blew Up the Peace Deal with Trump
Opponents derailed the agreement with a clandestine effort to attack ships in the Strait of Hormuz, regime insiders say. Iran’s president was furious when he found out.
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Huss/ein Banai @hbanai.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Really don’t understand academics who use AI for posters or banners for their talks. It looks terrible, you just let us know that you’re marinated in the slop, and who exactly is going to be lured into an academic talk by fake graphics?
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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
@wearehighered.bsky.social
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Huss/ein Banai @hbanai.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
One significant, consequential way we each can tribute to taming this beast is to insist on analogue, human-centered activities in our personal and professional lives as much as possible. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/t...
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Anthropic C.E.O. Dario Amodei Calls for A.I. Slowdown
In a 3,800-word essay, Dario Amodei laid out the rapidly advancing capabilities of artificial intelligence and said there needed to be greater safety controls across the industry.
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Huss/ein Banai @hbanai.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Excited to share the following job posting for a tenure-track position in Global Security Studies in my department at IU. Please apply or share. I'm chairing the search, so feel free to reach out with any questions. indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/34265
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Assistant Professor of Global Security Studies
The Department of International Studies at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies invites applications for an assistant professor, tenure-track faculty position...
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Democrats are screwing up the US-Canada relationship and their own political best interests by not clearly committing to undo Trump’s actions here. www.slowboring.com/p/democrats-...
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Democrats should vow to surrender in the Canada trade war
Good politics, good policy, and the search for a peaceful world require complete repudiation of this nonsense.
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Huss/ein Banai @hbanai.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
My family and I go to the state fair every year, and I think this is indeed good barometer. Good of Rana Foroohar to come back home and write about it. I'll underline that the gap between discontent and Dems ability to turn it into votes is wide. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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What the Indiana state fair reveals about Trump’s America
Will the most ornery state in the conservative Midwest finally reject his politics?
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Daniel Drezner on the free world’s end of appeasement
“They realized there was no real constraint on what Trump might do.”
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Huss/ein Banai @hbanai.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Think there might be a pithier, more accurate way of saying this… www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/b...
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Huss/ein Banai @hbanai.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This made me chuckle: '...what Asian democracies regard as on-off US support Colby describes as “flexible realism”, which is the kind of think-tank jargon that could cover any conceivable policy at all. But he is staff. Staff have to abase themselves.' giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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The end of Trumpsplaining
The pretence that America’s leader is a grand strategist will not survive the Iran fiasco
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Friends don't let friends give assignments that are AI-cheatable
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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Huss/ein Banai @hbanai.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My Iranian-Canadian-American identity is being crash tested by this administration at a level of intensity I've never quite experienced before.
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Huss/ein Banai @hbanai.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I really worry about the unintended political consequences of this no-choice-but-to-exit decision, especially inside Canada. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/w...
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Carney Stands Up to Trump in U.S.-Canada Trade War
Canada’s prime minister walked away from what he thought was a bad trade deal with the United States. Many Canadians are behind him, but it will be costly.
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Huss/ein Banai @hbanai.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This piece by David Runciman is one of the better reflections I've read on the Arday tragedy. www.newstatesman.com/cover-story/...
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A dream of Cambridge
The university’s place in the public imagination is as illusory as Jason Arday’s academic credentials
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Huss/ein Banai @hbanai.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
There’s a very special place in hell for people who move into a new house with a beautiful garden or lots of trees and then proceed to cut the trees and destroy the garden to make room for plastic toys and/or outdoor kitchen
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Huss/ein Banai @hbanai.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It’s be very naive to think he’s not going to interfere with the midterms
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Huss/ein Banai @hbanai.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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The new premium product: books written by people
Some publishers think AI could not only help authors but replace them
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 24/07/2026
President Trump had threatened to prevent the opening of a new $4.5 billion bridge linking Detroit and Windsor, Ontario. After the two countries signed a last-minute deal, the bridge is now set to open Monday. wapo.st/3RReRAQ
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Huss/ein Banai @hbanai.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Some of the consequences of policies pushed by Woolsey in the MENA (to say nothing of the radicalization of the GOP): Failed states in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Syria & Lebanon Unwinnable wars against Iran, leading to IRI bomb Nuclearization of Saudi Arabia Isolation & weakening of Israel
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Marie Harf @marieharf.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Was great talking to @gregsargent.bsky.social about the quagmire the Trump admin has gotten us into in Iran - a war of choice started by a President who is divorced from reality and a SecDef who thinks tough talk and bombs equal strategic success. Feels like a new forever war with no end in sight.
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Huss/ein Banai @hbanai.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Trump is never subtle or vague about his intentions. The key question for him always is whether he can get the Republican Party to ram them through into reality. He’s done pretty well over the last 10 years so why stop now.
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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Glad to see this argument move beyond political theory and be voiced by more empirical political scientists as well
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Huss/ein Banai @hbanai.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Isn’t a helipad just a cement/asphalt circle with an H painted on it? That costs $5 million somehow?
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
imagine trying "I know I've been gone four months but I'll explain when I'm back" if you were a shift worker at Arby's
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Huss/ein Banai @hbanai.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
To be an Iranians, man… The trauma never stops.
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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
In response to Trump's apologists, note that U.S. fuel costs of the Iran war alone (due to higher-priced gasoline and diesel) surpass $62.6 billion today, enough to fund NASA, the EPA, CDC, FDA, National Park Service AND Dept of Commerce for an entire year. "Winning"? iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
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Huss/ein Banai @hbanai.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Not enough commentary about how much money he wastes on bad ideas he’s late to www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/t...
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Mark Zuckerberg Directed Meta to Create a Prediction Markets App
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Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · 19/06/2026
After 107 days of hostilities, the war in Iran has settled into a stalemate—the “least admired of diplomatic outcomes,” writes @hbanai.bsky.social. “Still, this result doesn’t need to be a defeat for the United States.”
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When a Cease-Fire Is Really a Stalemate
Equilibrium with Iran is the best America can do.
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Perry World House @perryworldhouse.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
New in @foreignaffairs.com : PWH Non-Resident Senior Advisor @hbanai.bsky.social weighs in on the U.S.-Iran cease-fire. Read his analysis here: www.foreignaffairs.com/war-iran/whe...
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When a Cease-Fire Is Really a Stalemate
Equilibrium with Iran is the best America can do.
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Huss/ein Banai @hbanai.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I’m on a flight back from an academic workshop in Italy, where the widespread sentiment was that Meloni - along with many other European anti-liberal populists - is waking up to the reality that Trump is so much more devious than just an ally in bigotry and cruelty towards migrants
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This is so goddamn embarrassing.
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Huss/ein Banai @hbanai.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
This war was the culmination of a counterfeit narrative he circulated in a way that neither GOP hawks nor Netanyahu could do on their own. Will he pay any price for it? I'm not sure; but many others already have and will continue to, in blood and treasure. open.substack.com/pub/hedgeofs...
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A Counterfeit War's Inevitable Landing
Never forget why and how this all began
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
CNN correctly reports “The signing of a memorandum of understanding between Washington and Tehran is expected to kick off 60 more days of negotiation on ending the war.” www.cnn.com/2026/06/14/w...
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Live updates: Trump says agreement reached with Iran | CNN
President Donald Trump says an agreement with Iran has been reached and the US will end its naval blockade on the country. Follow live updates.
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Huss/ein Banai @hbanai.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The bundle of deranged psychological impulse, vulgar con artistry, delusional expectations, and empty threats that led to this misbegotten war - the whole thing packaged in one post.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
🔥 SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov: “This war in Iran is the worst foreign policy blunder since Iraq. And just like the Iraq war, it’s a war built on lies. The ‘America first’ President who said he would end foreign wars, now he says all we can afford is war.”
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Huss/ein Banai @hbanai.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Well, there goes my summer 🥴
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Huss/ein Banai @hbanai.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Literally did a TV interview about his “Iran will be hit very hard” post 40 minutes ago in which I said “Let’s not put too much stock into what he says because he may well say the exact opposite today”… like clockwork!
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Huss/ein Banai @hbanai.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Back in April, I argued in @foreignaffairs.com that US and Israel have different motives on Iran. They're rendered all the more unmanageable by Trump's wish to be seen as dictating terms. More than anything, this is the gamble that didn't pay off for Bibi. www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/america...
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America and Israel Have Different Endgames in Iran
A Shared Enemy, but Diverging Views of Its Motives and Character.
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Shiva Balaghi @sbalaghi.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Marjane Satrapi has left. AFP quoted a "member of her close circle" as saying she had "died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life." Absolutely devastating loss of a brilliant artist and brave soul. Her art remains.
Photo of writer, filmmaker, and activist Marjane Satrapi.
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Huss/ein Banai @hbanai.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Very well put. Very saddened by this news. He was a remarkably kind, generous, and sweet person
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
What's really astonishing is not the far right authoritarian party doing this, but the near-total lack of <loud public collective action> by university chancellors & presidents to oppose this existential crisis. Almost impossible to overstate how total a failure of leadership this is.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 21/05/2026
‘The illicit flows of money, “between 2 and 5 per cent of everything”, are such an important phenomenon in the contemporary global order that our current state of ignorance is indefensible.’ John Lanchester on money laundering. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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John Lanchester · Squillions: Where’s all the cash?
If it were an industry, money laundering would be the third biggest business in the world, behind commercial property...
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Huss/ein Banai @hbanai.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Pro tip: anytime Ahmadinejad’s name is mentioned, know that he’s not the real story
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Huss/ein Banai @hbanai.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Well, this is the end of Ahmadinejad now… www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...
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Early War Goal Was to Install Hard Line Former President as Iran’s Leader
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Janet Bufton 🍁🌻 @janetbufton.ca · 19/05/2026
I am thrilled for this to come out. At @liberalcurrents.com, I work through what I had to understand about how I ended up standing where I was as the postliberal moment emerged, and I try to show the way that I found forward. It's for everyone who is where I was and needs a hand extended.
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Liberalism Reunited
Classical liberals must rejoin left liberals in fighting for emancipatory politics and against the illiberal right.
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