Michelle Cottle

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2,005 appearances 16 recordings 1 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 19 Sep

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The Opinions · The New Tactic Trump Thinks Will Rally Voters · 25 Jul 2026 podcast

Mr. Gorbachev tear down that wall.

The whole, you know, the Cold War ended when I was in college.

So it was just always there until it wasn't.

So I ask this because the communist threat is part of what we're going to talk about this week, but not looking back to the 80s or before.

We're going to dig into a recent piece, Jamel, that you wrote about how President Trump has resurrected the specter of communism as a scare tactic heading into the November midterms.

But first, we're going to take a look at the on-again, off-again war in Iran and whether the U.S.

is headed into a new phase of escalation or even, dare I say it, a quagmire.

So maybe the theme of the week is everything old is new again.

I'm Michelle Cottle.

I cover national politics for New York Times Opinion.

And this week, I'm back with my usual co-conspirators, columnists David French and Jamel Bowie.

So David, back in June, you predicted that, quote, we might cycle through several more stages of almost war and almost peace.

Oh my God, it's like you're psychic.

So where are we now in that cycle and how close do you think we are to full-scale war?

With the usual caveat that we are taping on Thursday morning and it can go anywhere.

i want to pause and walk through a few more of the data points uh that we've got on the war so far so 18 us service members have died so far and many more have been injured i think just just since july 6th uh 100 troops have been injured gas prices are back up to around four dollars a gallon

Strait of Hormuz rains a flashpoint.

Now the Houthis have started blockading and firing on ships traveling to and from Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea.

That threatens to drive oil prices even higher.

So, David, how nervous are you about this escalating into a wider regional conflict with all of this going on?

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