Patrick Strickland was a senior reporter at Al Jazeera English for several years, and now writes for The Guardian, Politico EU, Columbia Journalism Review, and elsewhere. His previous book is Alerta! Alerta! Snapshots of Europe’s Anti-Fascist Struggle. He lives outside of Dallas, TX when not reporting from the American borderlands, or from Athens, Greece, where he has been investigating the downfall of the Nazi-like Golden Dawn party.