What Matthew Yglesias thinks about war
Writes Slow Boring, a near-daily newsletter on American politics and public policy; co-founded Vox in 2014 and left it in 2020.
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3 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Matthew Yglesias has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingRepublican foreign policy is systematically bad due to inattention to the risks of hawkishness.
Their wordsBut having watched both the George W. Bush and second Trump presidencies unfold, I think it’s because Republicans have systematically bad foreign policy that is inattentive to the downside risk of saber-rattling and hawkishness.
↗The Republican urge to start wars in the Middle Eastslowboring.com
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Their wordsI noted at the time that it seemed like a team that would lead the country into war with Iran and then hedged with the observation that presidents sometimes surprise us. So far so good! What I didn’t do in the piece was dwell on the idea at any length, which is too bad because I was right about the team of super-hawks and this seems to have kind of wrecked Trump’s presidency.
↗The Republican urge to start wars in the Middle Eastslowboring.com
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Their wordsIt's on some levels obvious that we are all very much living in a world that Osama bin Laden made.
↗We’re still underrating 9/11’s impactslowboring.com 2nd of 3 in this piece