Abbas Nazari is a Fulbright New Zealand scholar in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University, Washington DC. @theabbasnazari
While these groups started out in the fringes, many are now in the political mainstream, lurching traditionally progressive politics to the centre-right.
With calamitous US politics stoking fear and division in an already fraught nation, the New Zealand election makes for a calm and refreshing change.
Let us hope the sentence handed down today allows the victims and their families to breathe a little easier.
As some sense of normality returns to the streets of the US capital, the focus has shifted to political action – but this protest movement is not over.
As hundreds of refugees cry out for help from Manus Island, we need to remember what we're really about as a nation, writes Abbas Nazari.
