Danny Postel is Politics Editor at New Lines Magazine. Previously he was Assistant Director of the Center for International and Area Studies at Northwestern University, Senior Editor of openDemocracy, and a staff writer for The Chronicle of Higher Education. He is the author of Reading Legitimation Crisis in Tehran and co-editor of three books, including Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East.
Dispatch
“They’re Not Welcome”: How Chicago Residents Are Resisting Trump’s ICE Invasion of the City
As ICE wreaks chaos and violence in neighborhoods across Chicago, teams of rapid responders are protecting residents and challenging Trump’s attempted occupation by fighting fear through solidarity.
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Feature
Iranian Dissidents Explain Why They Support the Nuclear Deal
We know what politicians from the U.S. to Israel think about the Iran nuclear deal. How about asking some opponents of Iran's regime?
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Feature
Memories of an Afternoon with the Late Eduardo Galeano
Remembering an interview between a "poetically tone-deaf leftist" and the giant of the Latin American Left.
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Feature
It Wasn’t About Oil, and It Wasn’t About the Free Market: Why We Invaded Iraq
Muhammad Idrees Ahmad's new book not only interrogates the motivations behind the 2003 invasion of Iraq, but also reveals a cautionary tale for the present.
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Dispatch
Should We Oppose the Intervention Against ISIS?
Most U.S. leftists say yes. But voices we rarely hear—Kurds and members of the Syrian opposition—have more ambiguous views.
Danny Postel
Viewpoint
Iran’s Green Movement, the Basij and the Question of Violence
A response to Matthew Cassel's "An American in Tehran."
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Viewpoint
The Selective Solidarity of the Left
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Feature
Citizen of a Lost Country
An interview with Bogdan Denitch
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