Daniel Block

Senior editor @ForeignAffairs. Formerly: the @monthly, @thecaravanindia, @PhillyInquirer. Onetime ski instructor.

[Foreign Affairs @ForeignAffairs]

Listen to the latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” featuring @AliVaez and Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar in conversation with Senior Editor @dblock94:
https://t.co/2trzM3Id7N

[Daniel Block @dblock94]

What will happen next in America's war with Iran? For @ForeignAffairs, I spoke with @AliVaez and Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar to find out: https://t.co/RFG0jZUKJ4

[Foreign Affairs @ForeignAffairs]

Listen to the latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” featuring @AliVaez and Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar in conversation with Senior Editor @dblock94: https://t.co/2trzM3Id7N

[Daniel Block @dblock94]

The United States is speedrunning Narendra Modi's playbook for curtailing freedom of the press.

My latest for @thecaravanindia:

https://t.co/h0QxGjeSF1

[The Caravan @thecaravanindia]

Darkness Spreads: How Trump is following Modi’s playbook on dealing with the media

Daniel Block (@dblock94) writes:
https://t.co/EbGXjBmHzZ

[The Caravan @thecaravanindia]

In the less than two years since Trump returned to office, major publications and networks have started pulling punches or praising the president. Others have been hollowed out.

Daniel Block (@dblock94) writes:
https://t.co/EbGXjBmHzZ

[Washington Monthly @monthly]

One of the biggest changes happening in American life is getting little attention: Mass incarceration is ending.

The prison population is plummeting as crime falls. The consequences are extraordinary. @KeithNHumphreys and colleagues take stock.

https://t.co/bniPjjsLLj

[Bill Scher @billscher]

https://t.co/thA0ZkBnQZ

[Bill Scher @billscher]

Actual midterm House popular vote margin percentage compared to final RCP generic congressional ballot average

2022: R+0.2
2018: D+1.3
2014: R+3.4
2010: R-2.8
2006: D-3.6

[Eric Cortellessa @EricCortellessa]

Read my new @TIME cover story based on an exclusive interview with Donald Trump ahead of the midterms.

This cover marks a milestone for Trump: with 56 appearances, he's now been on the cover of TIME more than any other figure, surpassing Richard Nixon.
https://t.co/neGsY9koJv

[Puja Sen @psen9]

Together, Champat Rai, the religious organiser, Nripendra Misra, the bureaucrat and Govind Dev Giri,the godman formed the triumvirate that exercised maximum control over the Ram Mandir project. Dhirendra K Jha and @singhamritaa have the story

[Gilad Edelman @GiladEdelman]

"Tech CEOs are calling for AI regulation, therefore I'm against it" is not a useful—or even usable—heuristic. Mark Zuckerberg is against regulation. You actually have to evaluate the ideas on the merits.

[Kanishk Tharoor @kanishktharoor]

"The desire to see Russia as singularly the product of its steppe heritage ends up distorting and simplifying this history," writes @AyseZarakol in the latest issue of @ForeignAffairs about the project of Eurasianism and the history of the steppe empires that followed the Mongols

[Nate Weisberg @WeisbergNate]

For @NYMag, I spoke with John Fetterman’s colleagues and former staffers and about the senator’s past and future

https://t.co/HjcWsPV3yU

[Foreign Affairs @ForeignAffairs]

Iran’s leaders “never had much faith in American negotiators; now, they have virtually none,” writes Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar. “Iran, then, is adopting a strategy toward the United States defined by escalation and continuous offense.”
https://t.co/02zn0TqdMD

[Foreign Affairs @ForeignAffairs]

Read @SevaUT and Bruce Schneier on how AI could “greatly benefit” autocratic rulers in the short run—and create new threats to their rule in the long run:
https://t.co/j4XvV18cr2

[Foreign Affairs @ForeignAffairs]

On the latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” @kyleichan and @hlntnr consider what it will take for the United States and China to reduce the biggest risks posed by AI. Start listening here:
https://t.co/tIUdu8krn2

[Foreign Affairs @ForeignAffairs]

“Iran cannot evict the world’s only superpower from the Middle East,” writes @AliVaez. “Yet it can keep damaging U.S. regional bases, bombing the United States’ regional allies, and disrupting international commerce.”
https://t.co/bV4SBKHeFV

[Justin Vogt @Justin_Vogt]

Why on earth would you make this?

[Paul @glastris.bsky.social Glastris @glastris]

…you would know the answer. https://t.co/4Sie9uVohw