What the Hell is Going On?
Danielle Pletka, Elise LabottA companion to Danielle Pletka & Marc Thiessen's weekly podcast, analysis, highlights, and the occasional rant.
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Hot takes happy hour with Elise and Dany 🍸
The saddest words of tongue or pen: What might have been. While we were seriously discussing the slow-rolling fiasco that is becoming Trump Iran policy, contemplating the problem of unqualified nepo babies becoming Director of National Inte...
Wondering WTH is going on with Iran?
DP: Let’s agree that neither of us has the vaguest clue what’s going on with Iran. We have a cease-fire that has been violated repeatedly, including efforts to directly target US bases. We have a President who has said Iran wants a deal, an...
#WTH United Nations impunity
Let’s assume most of this article’s readers think the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023 was a bad thing. Perhaps you don’t like Israel’s response. Perhaps you wish Israel had gone further. But generally speaking, you frown on wanton murder, r...
Hot Takes Happy Hour with Elise & Dany
It’s tough to make a judgment about the state of negotiations with Iran when the news is misleading at best, lying at worst, and we have no damn idea what the hell is going on. Do you? And then there’s the state of elections 2026; so many c...
Hot takes happy hour with Elise and Dany
Thanks all for joining us for a special HTHH on Monday. More agreement than disagreement this week, largely because too many people are playing to type. The NYT is hating on Jews; Donald Trump can’t stick with a decision; a somewhat dull vi...
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Danielle Pletka is a distinguished senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the host, with Marc Thiessen, of the podcast What the Hell is Going On. You can find them on Substack @WhattheHellisGoingOn
Global affairs journalist. I write Cosmopolitics on Substack.
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