I wrote this short essay as a part of a Guardian panel on Trump’s inauguration speech. Well, that was boring. Predictable, prosaic and propelled by his typical exaggerations of national decay, Donald Trump’s inauguration address was a largely forgettable affair. Even his 2017 address had the memorable phrase of “American carnage”. This …
I wrote this essay for The Guardian, highlighting a fundamentally racist argument that Penny’s lawyeres used in the trial, that it was sickle cell trait – a condition that disproportionately affects Black people – that killed Jordan Neely. This legal argument is common, dangerous, and wrong. Make no mistake, Daniel …
In the dark genre of self-reported atrocity photography, governments take pictures of their crimes and file them away in an act of …
I write here, for The Guardian, that the Harris campaign’s inability to change course on Gaza was a fatal error certainly for …
I wrote this brief comment, “Between hate and nothing, hate won,” about the 2024 election for The Guardian. So, it will be …
I spoke with the acclaimed writer Ta-Nehisi Coates about his new book The Message for The Guardian. He has a lot of …
I write in The Guardian that Netanyahu’s allegation that Iran controls all of Lebanon is a ploy to stoke another disastrous sectarian …
I joined a panel of commentators at The Guardian to assess the Walz/Vance vice-presidential debate of Oct. 1, 2024. The first question …
The kind of lies that Donald Trump and JD Vance traffic in sets a dangerous new precedent in our political culture, I …
I joined a panel of commentators at The Guardian to assess the Harris/Trump debate of September 10, 2024. For the entirety of …