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Ishaan Tharoor

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Ishaan Tharoor

@ishaantharoor

Global-affairs columnist @NewYorker Ex: @WashingtonPost @Time. Dad. [email protected]

DC via NYC

Joined June 2009

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Ishaan Tharoor
@ishaantharoor
Jun 9
PERSONAL NEWS: I've joined the @NewYorker full-time as a global-affairs columnist, where I'll be writing a weekly essay on the world. It's a dream gig and I'm still pinching myself that I get to say all these incredible, talented journalists I've long admired are my colleagues!
Michael Luo
@michaelluo
Jun 9
Some news from @NewYorker. Welcome @jesusrodriguezb @ishaantharoor!
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Ishaan Tharoor
@ishaantharoor
Nov 26, 2024
Mexican President Sheinbaum fires back at Trump in a statement: "Seventy percent of the illegal weapons seized from criminals in Mexico come from your country. We do not produce these weapons, nor do we consume synthetic drugs. Tragically, it is in our country that lives are lost
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Ishaan Tharoor
@ishaantharoor
May 1, 2024
Israel destroyed all the universities in Gaza.
Lauren Boebert
@laurenboebert
May 1, 2024
I get a strange inkling that all these Columbia and UCLA students running around yelling “Free Palestine” would not be jumping at the opportunity to do a semester abroad in Gaza.
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Ishaan Tharoor
@ishaantharoor
Apr 21, 2022
Japan received NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern with two Kiwis balefully swaying to music.
henry cooke
@henrycooke
Apr 21, 2022
This is the greatest day of my life
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Ishaan Tharoor
@ishaantharoor
Jun 26, 2025
Casual bigotry on part of this TN rep that will have no political consequences for him whatsoever
Rep. Andy Ogles
@RepOgles
Jun 26, 2025
DEPORT little muhammad!
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Ishaan Tharoor
@ishaantharoor
Sep 23, 2025
A senior foreign diplomat posted at the UN texts me: "This man is stark, raving mad. Do Americans not see how embarrassing this is?"
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Ishaan Tharoor
@ishaantharoor
Oct 30, 2020
I just voted for the first time in my life. I told the lady registering me that I had naturalized this year and hadn’t voted before and she yelled out “first time voter” and all the poll workers and volunteers clapped and cheered. Thanks, America.
Ishaan Tharoor
@ishaantharoor
Jul 23, 2024
A meme floating around Indian WhatsApp
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Ishaan Tharoor
@ishaantharoor
Nov 9, 2020
Something is odd about this. Looks like a group of subject matter experts. Where are Biden's relatives? How are they supposed to lead the country like this?
Daniel Dale
@ddale8
Nov 9, 2020
The Biden-Harris transition has announced its Covid-19 Advisory Board:
Ishaan Tharoor
@ishaantharoor
Nov 30, 2020
Who's gonna tell Peter
Ishaan Tharoor
@ishaantharoor
Jan 4, 2024
Appalling that a nation would give another nation the armaments to bomb civilians
CSPAN
@cspan
Jan 4, 2024
John Kirby: "Our information indicates that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea recently provided Russia with ballistic missile launchers and several ballistic missiles...Russian forces launched at least on of these North Korean missiles into Ukraine."
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Ishaan Tharoor
@ishaantharoor
Nov 26, 2024
Replying to @ishaantharoor
Here's the full statement: Mexico City, November 26, 2024 Dear President-elect Donald Trump, I am writing to you regarding your statement on Monday, November 25, concerning migration, fentanyl trafficking, and tariffs. You may not be aware that Mexico has developed a
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Ishaan Tharoor
@ishaantharoor
Nov 13, 2023
And now he's dead.
Mohammed Zubair
@zoo_bear
Nov 13, 2023
Anchor : “Why don't you go with your family to South Gaza?” Palestinian Doctor Hammam Alloh, Al-Shifa Hospital : “And If I go, who treats my patients? We are not animals, we have the right to receive proper health care. You think I went to medical school and my postgraduate
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Ishaan Tharoor
@ishaantharoor
Nov 21, 2023
I do not understand people being outraged by this. It’s no surprise that 18-year-olds at an elite northeast university are mostly progressive. Do we exercise such monitoring of views over police precincts? Hedge funds? The military?
Steve McGuire
@sfmcguire79
Nov 20, 2023
Harvard's Freshman class: 65% progressive, 8% conservative
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