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.
Latest from Ishaan Tharoor

In Syria, a sudden reminder of a war that never ended

The dramatic unraveling of the past days might show how hollow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s supremacy was.

December 1, 2024
A tank left is seen behind by regime forces on the road leading to the town of Khan Sheikhun in Syria's Idlib province on Sunday.

Trump’s ‘America First’ bullying is back

President-elect Donald Trump isn’t wasting time setting the stage for his second term, with plans for tariffs on goods from Mexico, China and Canada.

November 27, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump on election night at the Palm Beach Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Trump and his allies see a role model in Argentina’s Milei

The chainsaw-wielding libertarian’s record of slashing government spending has won him admirers in Trumpworld.

November 25, 2024
Argentine President Javier Milei, center, appears at Mar-a-Lago on Nov. 14 with, from left, Argentine Foreign Minister Gerardo Werthein, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, President-elect Donald Trump and Argentine Secretary General of the Presidency Karina Milei.

ICC warrants put spotlight on Israel and its U.S. defenders

Many Western countries — including stalwart U.S. and Israeli allies — called for the International Criminal Court’s ruling against Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu to be respected.

November 22, 2024
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in October 2023.

Biden drifts off the world stage after Brazil’s G-20

The trip that was supposed to be the U.S. president’s swan song seemed to underscore his status as a lame duck.

November 20, 2024
President Joe Biden walks to Air Force One at Rio de Janeiro International Airport in Brazil on Tuesday as he returns from the G-20 summit.

The struggle against climate change is foundering. Enter Trump.

Even before Donald Trump’s election, global climate action faced challenges.

November 16, 2024
An ice sculpture depicting Donald Trump sits across the Hudson River from U.N. headquarters in New York in 2020.

Trump and the Israeli right resume their embrace

Right-wing Israelis have embraced fresh Trump appointees like Mike Huckabee and Elise Stefanik, foreshadowing a closer U.S.-Israeli relationship.

November 15, 2024
Tomer Benyehudam poses for a photo holding an Israel flag near Mar-a-Lago.

What Trump’s emerging foreign policy team tells us about his agenda

In picking figures such as Marco Rubio and Fox News host Pete Hegseth for his administration, Trump may be signaling his foreign policy goals — or foreshadowing four years of chaos.

November 13, 2024
Donald Trump with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) during a campaign rally on Oct. 29.

What Trump's win means for the rest of the world

On today’s “Post Reports,” how foreign leaders are reacting to Trump’s victory, and how they are preparing for a second Trump presidency.

November 11, 2024

In Gaza, ‘an entire society now a graveyard’

The devastation in northern Gaza, now the focus of a punishing Israeli military campaign, has stunned veteran aid officials.

November 10, 2024
Palestinians sit next to a fire in the rubble of their destroyed home in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, last month.