Dan Perry
@dan-perry.bsky.social
Former AP chief editor in Europe/Africa/Middle East/Caribbean; opinion writer at Newsweek, The Forward, The Hill and more; communications expert and world affairs analyst; avid reader, Philly sports fan, and father of daughters.
HIghlights from Ask Questions Later's coverage and commentary in 2025, which was truly a year to remember. Check it out!
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Who By Fire: 2025 Was a Year of Volatility, Madness and a Sprinkling of Promise
Highlights of Ask Questions Later's coverage and commentary
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December 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
HIghlights from Ask Questions Later's coverage and commentary in 2025, which was truly a year to remember. Check it out!
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Why Britain and America Still Don’t Speak the Same English
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Separated by a Common Language
Why Britain and America Still Don’t Speak the Same English
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December 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Why Britain and America Still Don’t Speak the Same English
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Don't be too surprised to see UK moves in the direction of the EU in 2026. In the background, leading the polls, looms far-right firebrand (and seeming Putin sympathizer) Nigel Farage danperry.substack.com/p/for-britai...
For Britain’s Embattled Labour Party, an EU Return Makes Political Sense
Don't be too surprised to see moves in this direction in 2026. In the background, leading the polls, looms far-right firebrand (and Putin sympathizer) Nigel Farage
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December 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Don't be too surprised to see UK moves in the direction of the EU in 2026. In the background, leading the polls, looms far-right firebrand (and seeming Putin sympathizer) Nigel Farage danperry.substack.com/p/for-britai...
FOR PAID SUBSCRIBERS: AI is both a speculative surge and a brutally real transition. Which will be the story that sticks?
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The Bubble and the Boom
FOR PAID SUBSCRIBERS: AI is both a speculative surge and a brutally real transition. Which will be the story that sticks?
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December 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
FOR PAID SUBSCRIBERS: AI is both a speculative surge and a brutally real transition. Which will be the story that sticks?
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US plans to demand years of social media from visitors are accelerating America’s self-inflicted collapse as an open, admired society. And, of course, harming the economy. Again.
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A Feed Too Far
Plans to demand years of social media from visitors are accelerating America’s self-inflicted collapse as an open, admired society
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December 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
US plans to demand years of social media from visitors are accelerating America’s self-inflicted collapse as an open, admired society. And, of course, harming the economy. Again.
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With the world on fire, gifting a publication like Ask Questions Later may be the cool thing to do. It says: I think you care about understanding the world and can hold more than one idea at once. And I think you might appreciate that I know.
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On Gifts, Altruism, and Explanatory Journalism
With the world on fire, gifting a Substack publication like AQL may be the cool thing to do this holiday season
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December 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
With the world on fire, gifting a publication like Ask Questions Later may be the cool thing to do. It says: I think you care about understanding the world and can hold more than one idea at once. And I think you might appreciate that I know.
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Expect fellow authoritarian Trump to now pressure Israel’s president to help Netanyahu escape justice, backed by threats against the Jewish state
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Netanyahu’s Pardon Request is Staggering Hypocrisy
Expect fellow authoritarian Trump to now pressure Israel’s president to help Netanyahu escape justice, backed by threats against the Jewish state
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December 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Expect fellow authoritarian Trump to now pressure Israel’s president to help Netanyahu escape justice, backed by threats against the Jewish state
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Across the map, strange doings are afoot. Here's what's on the radar this week, and a last call for the Thanksgiving subscription discount!
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On The Radar: A Geopolitics Dispatch
Trump threatens Venezuela, Ukraine talks in Miami, Netanyahu requests a pardon, Bolsonaro is a jailbird, US upheavals continue, and more
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November 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Across the map, strange doings are afoot. Here's what's on the radar this week, and a last call for the Thanksgiving subscription discount!
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Check out AQL's November astounding roundup and grab our Thanksgiving Discount (or gift a subscription!)
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November Rain
When your fears subside, and shadows still remain ... SUBSCRIBE AT OUR SPECIAL 25% HOLIDAY DISCOUNT!
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November 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Check out AQL's November astounding roundup and grab our Thanksgiving Discount (or gift a subscription!)
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TATIANA DER AVEDISSIAN WRITES IN AQL: With weak national climate commitments and rising political polarization the COP process risks irrelevance unless the public is brought directly into the negotiations. danperry.substack.com/p/the-un-cli...
The UN Climate Process Needs a Reboot
TATIANA DER AVEDISSIAN WRITES: With weak national climate commitments and rising political polarization the COP process risks irrelevance unless the public is brought directly into the negotiations.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:42 AM
TATIANA DER AVEDISSIAN WRITES IN AQL: With weak national climate commitments and rising political polarization the COP process risks irrelevance unless the public is brought directly into the negotiations. danperry.substack.com/p/the-un-cli...
What X’s new transparency revealed is basically an international emergency: Social media is not serious enough to be taken as seriously as we do. danperry.substack.com/p/fake-social
Fake Social
What X’s new transparency revealed is basically an international emergency: Social media is not serious enough to be taken as seriously as we do
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November 24, 2025 at 11:37 PM
What X’s new transparency revealed is basically an international emergency: Social media is not serious enough to be taken as seriously as we do. danperry.substack.com/p/fake-social
The ultimate, definitive, comprehensive, authoritative analysis of why Trump bows before the authoritarian war criminal Putin.
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Trump’s Pathetic Putin Worship
The ultimate, definitive, comprehensive, authoritative analysis of why Trump bows before the authoritarian war criminal Putin.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The ultimate, definitive, comprehensive, authoritative analysis of why Trump bows before the authoritarian war criminal Putin.
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Someone should tell Trump how Neville Chamberlain is remembered. danperry.substack.com/p/from-munic...
From Munich to Moscow in 87 Years
Someone should tell Trump how Neville Chamberlain is remembered
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November 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Someone should tell Trump how Neville Chamberlain is remembered. danperry.substack.com/p/from-munic...
Is the US about to invade #Venezuela? I discuss this on @newsnation.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNf2...
NewsNation 22 Nov 2025 Venezuela
YouTube video by Dan Perry
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November 22, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Is the US about to invade #Venezuela? I discuss this on @newsnation.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNf2...
Elon Musk organizes a trillion dollars for himself. How can it possibly be? The answer lies in the utter madness that is CEO pay today.
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The Avatar of Avarice
Elon Musk organizes a trillion dollars for himself. How can it possibly be? The answer lies in the utter madness that is CEO pay today.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Elon Musk organizes a trillion dollars for himself. How can it possibly be? The answer lies in the utter madness that is CEO pay today.
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Trump's trumpeting Saudi Arabia’s supposed pledge to funnel a trillion dollars into the US economy, as though Riyadh has just pulled up a truck full of cash and is dumping it onto the National Mall. It's a little more complicated than that.
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Snake Oil
Trump has an infantile view of trade and investment. MBS seemed very much amused.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Trump's trumpeting Saudi Arabia’s supposed pledge to funnel a trillion dollars into the US economy, as though Riyadh has just pulled up a truck full of cash and is dumping it onto the National Mall. It's a little more complicated than that.
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Richard Nixon, cornered by Watergate, stood before reporters in Orlando on Nov. 17, 1973 and delivered one of the most iconic lines in presidential history: “I am not a crook.” It seems quaint to remember such a time. danperry.substack.com/p/i-am-a-crook
I Am A Crook
“I am not a crook,” declared Richard Nixon on this day in history - and 52 years after that Nov. 17, his successor doesn't even bother to hide it
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November 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Richard Nixon, cornered by Watergate, stood before reporters in Orlando on Nov. 17, 1973 and delivered one of the most iconic lines in presidential history: “I am not a crook.” It seems quaint to remember such a time. danperry.substack.com/p/i-am-a-crook
WEEKEND READ ON AQL: It's just so strange that my linguistic pet peeves are not a global consensus. So I am launching my campaign for a global exorcism of the Top 10 abominations. danperry.substack.com/p/10-linguis...
10 Linguistic Atrocities Threatening Civilization
WEEKEND READ: It's just so strange that my pet peeves are not a global consensus. So I am launching my campaign for a global exorcism of the Top 10 abominations.
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November 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
WEEKEND READ ON AQL: It's just so strange that my linguistic pet peeves are not a global consensus. So I am launching my campaign for a global exorcism of the Top 10 abominations. danperry.substack.com/p/10-linguis...
ALISON MUTLER WRITES: The EU unveils its Democracy Shield against against the Putinbot project, showing that in a fragmented world with fading US leadership Europe may now be the only actor capable of coordinating a defense of democracy
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Europe Strikes Back at Russia’s Hybrid War
ALISON MUTLER WRITES: The EU unveils its Democracy Shield, showing that in a fragmented world with fading US leadership Europe may now be the only actor capable of coordinating a defense of democracy
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November 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
ALISON MUTLER WRITES: The EU unveils its Democracy Shield against against the Putinbot project, showing that in a fragmented world with fading US leadership Europe may now be the only actor capable of coordinating a defense of democracy
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The Lessons of November 11
And the Case for Saving the United Nations
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November 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The US government shutdown fiasco - and its absurd end with a Democratic fold - is the final argument for abolishing the filibuster. There are other lessons as well.
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So What Exactly Happened in America?
FOR PAID SUBSCRIBERS: The US government shutdown fiasco is the final argument for abolishing the filibuster. There are other lessons as well.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The US government shutdown fiasco - and its absurd end with a Democratic fold - is the final argument for abolishing the filibuster. There are other lessons as well.
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In today’s Critical Conditions podcast, Claire and I focused on #COP30 in Brazil. The US is not sending high-level delegates, hates multilateral diplomacy and denies climate change. Is it time to look beyond the COP process?
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The Brazil Climate Conference: The End of Multilateralism?
The CRITICAL CONDITIONS Podcast, Ep. 20
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November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
In today’s Critical Conditions podcast, Claire and I focused on #COP30 in Brazil. The US is not sending high-level delegates, hates multilateral diplomacy and denies climate change. Is it time to look beyond the COP process?
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THE FIFTH ESTATE: My analysis of the new economics of journalism.
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The Fifth Estate
The New Economics of Journalism
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November 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
THE FIFTH ESTATE: My analysis of the new economics of journalism.
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The filibuster that enables the shutdown is an absurd relic, and Trump is actually right in wanting to kill it. It is another case of BAD American exceptionalism. Read the story here: danperry.substack.com/p/trump-is-r...
Trump Is Right: Bust the Filibuster
Even a broken clock, etc. etc.
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November 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The filibuster that enables the shutdown is an absurd relic, and Trump is actually right in wanting to kill it. It is another case of BAD American exceptionalism. Read the story here: danperry.substack.com/p/trump-is-r...
The Americans have revolted (in a way) - why don't the Russians? In today’s Critical Conditions podcast, Claire Berlinski and I focused on US politics, the potential for a revolt in Russia, and the urgent need to help Lebanon disarm Hezbollah. Give it a listen! danperry.substack.com/p/the-americ...
The Americans have revolted (in a way) - why don't the Russians?
The CRITICAL CONDITIONS Podcast, Ep. 19
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November 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The Americans have revolted (in a way) - why don't the Russians? In today’s Critical Conditions podcast, Claire Berlinski and I focused on US politics, the potential for a revolt in Russia, and the urgent need to help Lebanon disarm Hezbollah. Give it a listen! danperry.substack.com/p/the-americ...