Danny Postel

Chicago

Politics Editor at New Lines Magazine

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Articles

The ‘America First’ Masquerade

Mar 25, 2025 | newlinesmag.com | Danny Postel

Though packaged as a kind of foreign policy realism, the doctrine guiding the Trump administration is riddled with contradictions It seemed at the time like a Freudian slip. A few years ago, when Tucker Carlson still had his prime-time show on Fox News, he asked: “Why do I care what’s going on in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia? And I’m serious. Why do I care? And why shouldn’t I root for Russia?
The Threat Trump Poses Is Real, but Democrats Must Learn Through Defeat

Nov 5, 2024 | newlinesmag.com | Danny Postel

A little perspective to offset the shock and bewilderment of the moment. The Democratic Party was in a structurally bad position in 2024. Very bad.
The Biden Netanyahu Rift

Mar 26, 2024 | portside.org | Danny Postel |Lisa Goldman

The Biden Netanyahu Rift Published March 26, 2024 This week’s diplomatic contretemps between the Israeli and American governments is being described as the worst rupture in the “special relationship” in decades. In 1962 President John F. Kennedy remarked to Golda Meir (then Israel’s foreign minister) that America’s bond with the Jewish state was comparable only to the one the U.S. shared with Britain.
The Conservative Fault Lines Revealed by Debates Over Israel

Nov 6, 2023 | newlinesmag.com | Danny Postel

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 On the Oct. 9 episode of his show on X, formerly known as Twitter (“Tucker on X”), the conservative commentator Tucker Carlson urged restraint in response to Hamas’ gruesome attacks against Israel two days earlier. “There’s a lot at stake in how we encourage Israel to respond,” the former Fox News host cautioned.