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Isaac Chotiner

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New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.

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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New Interview: I talked to the analyst Jaser AbuMousa about what life is like in Gaza today, and the devastation of his own family. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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What Life Is Actually Like in Gaza Today
Nearly a year after the ceasefire in Gaza, the analyst Jaser AbuMousa explains the impediments to rebuilding, and the devastation of his own family.
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I reviewed Benjamin Moser’s ‘Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History,’ and Omer Bartov’s ‘Israel: What Went Wrong?’ for this week’s issue of The New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Is Zionism’s Moral Crisis About Roads Not Taken—or Original Sin?
Where Benjamin Moser replaces one story of Jewish exceptionalism with another, Omer Bartov shows what’s lost when polemic takes the place of history.
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I profiled the writer Neal Ascherson for The New Yorker, and talked with him about his career reporting on so many of the great events of the 20th century. www.newyorker.com/culture/life...
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Reporting the Big World
Neal Ascherson found himself at the center of the great crises of Cold War Europe. Do careers like his exist anymore?
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
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How the Dangerous Rise in Anti-Immigration Politics Went Mainstream
Violent unrest after a stabbing in Northern Ireland showed the extent to which the far right has taken hold in the U.K., as well as in Europe and the U.S.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 25/05/2026
President Trump has announced that the U.S. and Iran are close to a deal that would end the war. An expert on the Middle East tells @ichotiner.bsky.social that any such deal will be a humiliation for Trump. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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Why Any Plausible Iran Deal Is a Humiliation for Trump
Even as the U.S. claims to be nearing an agreement to end the conflict, Tehran’s ability to close the Strait of Hormuz and hold the global economy hostage has reinforced the power of regime hard-liners.
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
New Interview: I talked to Nate Cohn about the state of the gerrymandering wars and what they mean for 2026 and 2028. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/what…
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What the Gerrymandering Wars Mean for the Midterms—and 2028
“The balance of gerrymanders has lurched pretty abruptly toward the right.” The New York Times’ chief political analyst on whether the Democrats can match the G.O.P. in the fight over redistricting.
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
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Donald Trump’s Lose-Lose Negotiations with Iran
How the President’s insistence on Tehran’s unconditional surrender made it impossible to make a deal.
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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The Extremes of Israeli Public Opinion
Israeli voters are against a ceasefire with Iran, and think Netanyahu has not gone far enough.
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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How Pakistan Became a Major Player in Peace Negotiations Between the U.S. and Iran
The Pakistani military has wooed Donald Trump, and fallen out with its former Taliban allies, as it looks to wield more influence in the region.
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
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Why Israel Is Attacking Lebanon
Hezbollah, Iran, and Israel helped fuel a disastrous political crisis in Lebanon. Now the Netanyahu government is using it to justify a larger conflict. An expert discusses what Israel really hopes to...
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
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How Donald Trump’s Iran War Is Destabilizing the Gulf
Despite their animosity toward Iran, America’s allies in the Middle East are worried that the region is headed for wider conflict.
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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Xi Jinping’s Purge and What Trump’s Foreign Policy Means for China
Isaac Chotiner interviews Bill Bishop, the author of “Sinocism,” about how China views the Trump Administration’s alienation of NATO allies, and what is happening in Xi’s “anti-corruption campaign.”
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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Do Federal Officials Really Have “Absolute Immunity”?
After killings by ICE and Border Patrol in Minneapolis, a legal expert discusses how agents might be held to account by local authorities.
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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Can Trump Really Use the Insurrection Act?
An expert on Presidential emergency powers discusses the history and legality of military deployments in American cities.
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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How Donald Trump Has Transformed ICE
A former D.H.S. oversight official on what, legally, the agency can and can’t do—and the accountability mechanisms that have been “gutted beyond recognition.”
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 07/01/2026
Matthew Kroenig, a foreign policy expert and Trump skeptic, supports the removal of Nicolás Maduro. “He was bad—bad for U.S. security, and bad for the Venezuelan people, and it’s better that he’s gone,” he told @ichotiner.bsky.social. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/IpBZxl
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The Former Trump Skeptics Getting Behind His War in Venezuela
A onetime adviser to Marco Rubio and Mitt Romney argues that the U.S. has been “too cautious” in its use of force since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 25/10/2025
Benjamin Netanyahu is “very embarrassed of the fact that Hamas still exists, that Hamas is still the dominant player in Gaza,” a researcher at Tel Aviv University told @ichotiner.bsky.social. “If he could choose, he would prefer to continue the war.”
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What Israel and Hamas Actually Want from the Gaza Ceasefire
And how the fantasies and delusions of the major players could torpedo the deal.
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 09/09/2025
Nate Cohn, the New York Times’ chief political analyst, talks to @ichotiner.bsky.social about what Democrats might need to do to win the House in 2026—and the Supreme Court case that could have a bigger impact on that election than any redistricting could.
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Texas’s Gerrymander May Not Be the Worst Threat to Democrats in 2026
Nate Cohn, the New York Times’ chief political analyst, on a consequential Supreme Court case and why Republicans are registering so many new voters.
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