John Feffer is director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies.

He is the author, most recently, of Aftershock: A Journey into Eastern Europe’s Broken Dreams (Zed Books). He is also the author of the dystopian novel Splinterlands (Dispatch Books) and its soon-to-be-released sequel Frostlands. He is the author of several other books, and his articles have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, USAToday, Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, and many other publications.

He has been an Open Society fellow, a PanTech fellow in Korean Studies at Stanford University, a Herbert W. Scoville fellow, a writing fellow at Provisions Library in Washington, DC, and a writer in residence at Blue Mountain Center and the Wurlitzer Foundation.

He is a former associate editor of World Policy Journal. He has worked as an international affairs representative in Eastern Europe and East Asia for the American Friends Service Committee. He has studied in England and Russia, lived in Poland and Japan, and traveled widely throughout Europe and Asia.

John has been widely interviewed in print, on radio, and TV.

Learn more about him on his website.

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If Journalists are the Enemy of the People, I Am Too

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What Russia Really Wants (And Got) From Trump

In Trump, the Kremlin got what it wanted — an America paralyzed by an incompetent administration at odds with more than half the country’s population.

Making American Mediocre Again

As conditions in the U.S. deteriorate, the world will continue to suffer the consequences of U.S. military force — but without the mitigating influences of U.S. foreign aid and diplomacy.

My Novel (Accidentally) Predicted Trump

By the time my dystopian future novel went to print, much of that future had become the present.

Trump’s Anti-Islamic Sentiments Extend Beyond The Muslim Ban

Trump the businessman is at war with Trump the ideologue over the question of Islam.

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What Putin Wants from Trump

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Can Europe Resist the Trump Tide?

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Trump is Frighteningly Predictable

Nothing defines Trump’s predictability more than his aggressive, Islamophobic, and anti-diplomatic choices for his foreign policy team.

What Europe Can Teach Us about Trump

As America braces itself for the landfall of Hurricane Trump, it’s instructive to look at Europe’s populist leaders for clues to our future.

The Case For Non-Cooperation With Trump

Let the next four years of antipolitics begin.

Under Trump, the U.S. Will Become an Enemy of the International Community

A relentless, four-year onslaught by Donald Trump and his allies will have a terrible effect.

It Can’t Happen Here (But It Just Did)

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