Shashank Joshi

“…Democrats just won by such huge margins in so many different places and in so many different ways that any and every would-be presidential candidate can selectively parse the results to claim validation for his or her demographic profile, temperament, experience or ideological leanings.” nytimes.com/2026/11/09/opi…

"I’m sorry that the voters made the wrong choice"

"Roughly a year ago, Mr. Trump was briefed about the intelligence findings, which have not been previously reported, and chose not to do anything with the information. Mr. Trump has been wary of disrupting Nvidia’s chip sales"

nytimes.com/2026/10/29/us/…

US officials briefing on Abu Dhabi talks:

"conversations have now become daily with the Russians and the Ukrainians, sometimes multiple"

"there's been incredibly close coordination with Ukraine and with Europe over the past month and a half, two months, even before that...we do believe very strongly that at this point, in order to end the war, you really need to have Europe at the table, and we've been, you know, building the process to do that...We were able to get the call with the Finnish and the Norwegians and the Russians together, which is a good step."

Official says that "any arrangements" on European post-war security architecture "will respect the national sovereignty and independent decision making, with NATO remaining central to this to European collective defense"

"The [Commerce Dept.] agents were alarmed that Nvidia had invoked the name of Mr. Kessler, their superior, who was nominated to his role by President Trump. Some viewed Mr. Kessler’s interaction with Nvidia as violating government procedure and potentially tainting the case, according to current and former government officials and others familiar with the incident."