Daniel Moattar

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(@danielmoattar) is a Chicago-based journalist who has written and reported for The Nation, In These Times, and The Baffler.

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US Immigration Is Stuck in the Stone Age—and It’s Putting Lives In Danger US Immigration Is Stuck in the Stone Age—and It’s Putting Lives In Danger

In Trump’s America, paperwork can be lethal. 

Mar 5, 2019 / Daniel Moattar

Free Speech Rally at UC Berkeley

The Dark Money Behind Campus Speech Wars The Dark Money Behind Campus Speech Wars

Speech First has ties to the billionaire Koch brothers and high-profile conservative causes. But the campus culture wars won’t be won in the courts: You can’t litigate students int...

Jul 9, 2018 / Daniel Moattar

Mount Olive Correctional Center

Prisons Are Using Military-Grade Tear Gas to Punish People Prisons Are Using Military-Grade Tear Gas to Punish People

A burgeoning arms industry brings the war home.

Apr 28, 2016 / Daniel Moattar

Refugees arrive by boat in Athens, December 18, 2015.

What Can You Actually Do for Syrian Refugees? What Can You Actually Do for Syrian Refugees?

Trump wants to ban refugees fleeing ISIS and civil war. Here’s how to welcome them instead.

Dec 22, 2015 / Daniel Moattar

A marcher holds a sign at the Coalition of Immokalee Workers's rally for just working conditions in Florida tomato fields, November 16, 2015.

In New York, Farmworkers Rally for 1 Cent of Dignity In New York, Farmworkers Rally for 1 Cent of Dignity

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers has won battles with McDonald’s, Burger King, Subway, Chipotle, and Taco Bell. Is Wendy’s next?

Nov 18, 2015 / Daniel Moattar

Why Isn’t Yale As Radical as Mizzou?

Why Isn’t Yale As Radical as Mizzou? Why Isn’t Yale As Radical as Mizzou?

University of Missouri students pulled all the right levers for structural change. Why hasn’t Yale done the same?

Nov 11, 2015 / StudentNation / Daniel Moattar

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