Matt Duss
American foreign-policy analyst, executive vice president of the Center for International Policy; foreign-policy adviser to Senator Bernie Sanders from 2017 to 2022, then a visiting fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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Their wordsPlease take note of all the former Biden administration officials explaining why they were powerless to get the ceasefire Trump just got. They’re telling us why they should never serve in government again.
- 5 weeks earlier
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Israel's September 2025 strike on Doha during US-backed negotiations was absolutely insane.
Their wordsThis is absolutely insane. Israel just launched an attack on the capital of a major non-NATO US ally in the midst of US-supported negotiations against officials who were originally hosted there *at the US's request.*
- 18 months earlier
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Their wordsHamas bears responsibility for Oct 7. Israel bears responsibility for its indiscriminate assault on Gaza. Neither justifies the other.
- 7 weeks earlier
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Their wordsIt’s hard to overstate what a massive miscalculation it was for Biden to yoke his presidency, and our country’s security, to a corrupt authoritarian racist whose only hope of political survival is prolonging the Gaza war as long as possible.
- 19 months earlier
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Their wordsThe embrace of MBS is being presented in terms of a trade off between idealism and realism, but this is wrong. There’s nothing realistic about yoking US policy to the whims of a corrupt, brutal autocrat.
- 6 weeks earlier
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Their wordsGood morning, the reason that Congress can't pass a moderate social spending bill to help working people but hundreds of billions of dollars in weapons spending and tax incentives for wealthy corporations pass with relative ease is because US politics is extremely corrupt.
- 7 weeks earlier
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Their wordsThis is apparently hard for some folks to grasp because it's not true in many other areas of foreign policy, but a responsible progressive position on Ukraine is basically what Biden is doing right now.
- 13 days earlier
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Their wordsIn addition to keeping the planet habitable, another good reason to aggressively transition to green energy is we wouldn’t have to go hat in hand to beg our corrupt authoritarian petrostate partners for help against corrupt authoritarian petrostate enemies.