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Michael Hirsh

@michaelphirsh

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

This is Dick #Cheney's true legacy. The only thing to add really is that he paved the way for #Trump and #AmericaFirst by helping to discredit the political establishment in Washington after both parties supported his Iraq war: politico.com/magazine/story…


For decades the Democratic Party has been mostly counterpunching against the right with no real agenda of its own—and "abundance" doesn't really cut it: foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/15/uni…


Is #Trump a "#russianasset," as Portugal's president just said? The former acting director of the FBI says there are "serious questions" about Trump's Russia connections and "none of those have ever been answered": foreignpolicy.com/2024/10/30/end…


Remember how many thousands of #American #soldiers were killed or maimed because the Pentagon didn't deal with the IED problem? The same thing could be happening with #drones: politico.com/news/magazine/…


During his trip to the #MiddleEast, #Trump effectively closed the door on a generation of U.S. policy toward the region and sanctified #Arab authoritarianism: foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/15/aut…


PBS has the best takedown of #USAID--which is ironic considering that #Trump now wants to cut funding for PBS: pbs.org/newshour/show/…


my old colleague @ron_fournier brilliantly sums up the stakes of #Trump's 'deep state' strategy: convulsions.substack.com/p/deep-deep-tr…


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