The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world
The Guardian has a weekly “featured essay,” and this week, the newspaper featured my essay titled “The destruction of Palestine is breaking …
Trump is deliberately ratcheting up violence in Los Angeles
In The Guardian, I argue that Trump is escalating the situation to justify greater force and repression. Now he’s talking about sending …
Trump’s new travel ban is a gratuitously cruel sequel
The new travel ban policy is alienating, counterproductive and racist – and it isn’t the flex that Trump thinks it is, I …
The case against Mahmoud Khalil is meant to silence American dissent
As I write in The Guardian, the open door of American democracy is slamming shut faster and louder than we could have …
Mahmoud Khalil’s treatment should not happen in a democracy
For The Guardian, I wrote about how the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil is an attempt by the Trump administration to destroy free …
Why did Trump win, and what comes next? Our panel reacts
I wrote this brief comment, “Between hate and nothing, hate won,” about the 2024 election for The Guardian. So, it will be …
Vance or Walz: who won the VP debate? Our panel responds
I joined a panel of commentators at The Guardian to assess the Walz/Vance vice-presidential debate of Oct. 1, 2024. The first question …
With their lies about Haitian immigrants, Trump and Vance have reached a new low
The kind of lies that Donald Trump and JD Vance traffic in sets a dangerous new precedent in our political culture, I …
Who won Kamala Harris and Donald Trump’s first debate?
I joined a panel of commentators at The Guardian to assess the Harris/Trump debate of September 10, 2024. For the entirety of …
Toys, spices, sewing machines: the items Israel banned from entering Gaza
I wrote this text for The Guardian to accompany Mona Chalabi’s illustrations depicting some of the items Israel has banned from entering …