Danny Postel

New Lines Magazine — The spectacular repression of ICE is leading ordinary residents of the Windy City to protest and organize

New Lines Magazine — Though packaged as a kind of foreign policy realism, the doctrine guiding the Trump administration is riddled with contradictions

New Lines Magazine — The danger of authoritarianism should not be dismissed, but nor should voters' other concerns

New Lines Magazine — Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro's argument on the war in Gaza is a microcosm of the fractures on the American right that lie behind the Republican Party line

Deusto Journal of Human Rights — This article examines the sweeping assault on democratic rights in the United States today, the far-reaching impact of Donald Trump’s presidency and development of «permanent Trumpism» on American political culture, and the activist mobilization against these forces. The authors discuss the growing alarm among scholars of democracy about the increasing «autocratization» of US politics and the «Orbanization» of the Republican Party. They examine how these dynamics are playing out at the local level, with a focus on the «swing» state of Michigan. They look at the growth of armed White Power groups and the turn to political violence in the US. They analyze the proliferation of conspiratorial claims (such as the assertion that the 2020 election was stolen) and the mainstreaming of far-right ideas (such as the «Great Replacement») via a right-wing media ecosystem that increasingly sustains a parallel epistemic universe. The authors map out the apparatus of election theft that is setting the stage for another coup attempt, and various measures designed to make it more difficult to vote. They review the scholarly debate about the nature of Trumpism. Finally, they discuss the growing resistance to Trumpism and various forms of organizing to defend democracy and defeat authoritarianism.

New Politics — Challenging the myth of Iran as a “revolutionary” state in the vanguard of a regional “Axis of Resistance” — a classic case of what the sociologist Ulrich Beck called a zombie category, which “are dead but somehow go on living, making us blind to the realities” of the world

Middle East Report (MERIP) — The US House of Representatives passed a potentially historic resolution on February 13, 2019, calling for an end to US military support for the Saudi-led coalition's intervention in Yemen that began in 2015.

Mediterranean Yearbook 2018 (European Institute of the Mediterranean) —

Pulse —

The New York Times — How the Trump administration is exacerbating the sectarianization of Middle East politics (co-authored with Nader Hashemi)

Jadaliyya — My co-editor Nader Hashemi and I discuss our book Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East

Democracy: A Journal of Ideas —

HuffPost — My introduction to Jeff Kelly Lowenstein's book Meaningful Matters: Reflections on Joy, Loss and Our Changing World

In These Times — 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?

In These Times — Reflections on the Uruguayan writer, a giant of the Latin American left

In These Times — A review of Idrees Ahmad’s book The Road to Iraq: The Making of a Neoconservative War

In These Times — Most U.S. leftists say yes. But voices we rarely hear — Kurds and members of the Syrian opposition — have more ambiguous views.

Middle East Policy — A Review of the book Will the Middle East Implode? by Mohammed Ayoob

Dissent Magazine —

Boston Review —

The Nation —

The New York Times — co-authored with my longtime collaborator Nader Hashemi

HuffPost — It's hard for me to share the peace movement's triumphalism. Yes, a US military attack was thwarted - good. But is that where the story ends?

Cairo Review of Global Affairs — A review of the book Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran, by Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett