
Max Fisher
Former Vox Staff
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The debates are so vicious because they’re not really about Iran — they’re about much deeper disputes.


Both want to broadly continue the status quo, but neither feels they can say that out loud.




This is what happens when you treat the world like a reality TV show.


It’s a reminder that Iran’s hard-liners still have the power — and the incentive — to blow up any progress.


Foreign policy is just a game, and America’s primary responsibility is to make the American president look personally tough.


The cartoon has, as surely designed, garnered significant controversy.


The president wants to combat a media- and politics-driven climate of fear he sees as a threat to the very fabric of American life.


The line from Obama’s State of the Union that pissed off every international relations scholar.


“It was one of the most emotional performances I’ve ever done. I was in tears.”