Skip To Main Content
Max Boot on Muck Rack

Max Boot

New York
As seen in: CFR Blogs, The Council on Foreign Relations, The Washington Post, Medium, O Globo, The New York Times, Business Insider, Post Outlook, The Guardian, The Independent (UK), USA Today, Washington Post Opinions, Los Angeles Times and
CFR fellow, WaPo columnist. Pulitzer finalist for biography. REAGAN: HIS LIFE AND LEGEND. NYT bestseller & NYT 10 best books of 2024. Writing John McCain bio.
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Claim your profile

Get in touch with Max

Contact Max, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Is this you?

As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile

Articles

Zelensky erred. Ukrainians showed how a civil society works.

|
By Max Boot
| The Washington Post Verified
Zelensky erred. Ukrainians showed how a civil society works. (washingtonpost.com) Zelensky erred. Ukrainians showed how a civil society works. By Max Boot 2026072010310900 Of the leaders in the world's nearly 200 countries, there is none that I admire as much as Volodymyr Zelensky. He has been a profile in courage with few equals since the days of Winston Churchill.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Trump’s Iran Deal Has Collapsed, Leaving the U.S. With Few Good Options

|
By Max Boot
| The Council on Foreign Relations
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media at the end of his participation in the NATO leaders summit in Ankara, Turkey on July 8, 2026. After Iran’s attacks on merchant shipping killed the ceasefire, Trump said he would reimpose the U.S. blockade and resume airstrikes. But with no military path to regime change and the war already deeply unpopular at home, the president faces the same strategic dilemmas that have defined the conflict from the start.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

How to interpret Trump’s head-spinning pivots on Iran and Russia

|
By Max Boot
| The Washington Post Verified
How to interpret Trump’s head-spinning pivots on Iran and Russia (washingtonpost.com) How to interpret Trump’s head-spinning pivots on Iran and Russia By Max Boot 2026071310160100 President Donald Trump is not exactly known as a model of consistency, but, even by his standards, he executed two head-spinning U-turns at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, last week — one on Iran, the other on Ukraine.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 1,810 licensed articles (1,922 Total)