Ishaan Tharoor

Washington, D.C.

Foreign affairs columnist and anchor of Today's WorldView, the Post's daily column and newsletter on global politics

Education: Yale University, BA, honors in history and ethnicity, race and migration

Ishaan Tharoor is a columnist on the foreign desk of The Washington Post, where he authors the Today's WorldView newsletter and column. In 2021, he won the Arthur Ross Media Award in Commentary, a prize administered by the American Academy of Diplomacy. He previously was a senior editor and correspondent at Time magazine, based first in Hong Kong and later in New York. He also periodically teaches an undergraduate seminar at Georgetown University on digital affairs and the global age.
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Latest from Ishaan Tharoor

Sudan slides toward civil war and state collapse

People who have navigated Sudan’s tortured politics fear an even darker turn in a nation that is no stranger to ruinous war.

April 23, 2023

Arab leaders keep trying to bury the Arab Spring

Developments in Tunisia are the latest iteration of what Nadim Houry, executive director of the Arab Reform Initiative, described as an “authoritarian restoration” that got underway in the years after the Arab Spring.

April 21, 2023

Brazil’s Lula reaches out to China and Russia, stoking U.S. unease

Away from the West, the “nonaligned” world is finding its voice.

April 19, 2023

Behind chaos in Sudan is a broader global power struggle

As dueling warlords remain locked in a classic internecine conflict in Sudan, outside players are fueling the discord.

April 18, 2023

The ‘old Europe’ vs. ‘new Europe’ paradigm is back

Former secretary of defense Donald H. Rumsfeld’s rubric of an “old Europe” juxtaposed against a more vibrant — and, from Washington’s perspective, amenable — “new” Europe endures, 20 years later.

April 17, 2023

The U.S.’s gloominess on the war in Ukraine is now clear to see

The apparent pessimism of U.S. officials about the course of the war underscores the question about what should come next.

April 14, 2023

Macron’s China trip turns into a European uproar

At the center of the controversy is an interview French President Emmanuel Macron gave that touched on Taiwan and China, saying Europe should not get “caught up in crises that are not ours.”

April 12, 2023

Good Friday Agreement is a rare success story of 1990s U.S. diplomacy

The 25th anniversary of the pact is a reminder of the relative failure of two other Clinton-era diplomatic agreements in the Middle East and the Balkans.

April 11, 2023

China’s new world order is taking shape

A bumper week for diplomacy in Beijing helps show the contours of the new world order China is imagining.

April 10, 2023

How Poland became the new ‘center of gravity’ in Europe

The war in Ukraine has ushered in a kind of geopolitical shift in Europe, away from its traditional anchors in France and Germany. In Central and Eastern Europe, wrote Le Monde columnist Sylvie Kauffmann, “the weight of history is stronger … the traumas are fresher and the return of tragedy is felt more keenly.”

April 7, 2023