Jenny Holzer, PEN America, and Me
This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the important organization PEN America, which fights “for the freedom of imprisoned and at-risk writers …
Interviewed for Hulu Documentary
I was pleased to be interviewed for the ABC News / Hulu Original documentary “The Murders Before the Marathon.” The documentary is …
Journey to Guantánamo
I went to the American penal colony in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. I was there as a journalist, to cover pre-trial motion hearings …
America is steeped in violence. And the roots of that violence go deep
It’s not just about guns. I wrote this essay for The Guardian reflecting on how America’s obsessions with guns and violence terrifies …
The alleged Buffalo shooter was also inspired by Islamophobia. That’s telling
I wrote this essay for The Guardian on the shooting in Buffalo. Few may realize that the alleged shooter copied the manifesto …
They are ‘civilised’ and ‘look like us’: the racist coverage of Ukraine
Are Ukrainians more deserving of sympathy than Afghans and Iraqis? Many seem to think so, and I investigate this problem in an …
The US government is deploying robot dogs to the Mexico border. Seriously?
As if the border isn’t surveilled and militarized enough, the Department of Homeland Security wants to go full Black Mirror. I wrote …
Justice for Ahmaud Arbery
Recognizing that jury reached the right verdict – even as the criminal justice system did everything it could to exonerate the three …
About that new University of Austin and free speech…
For The Guardian, I wrote this essay, in which I congratulate Bari Weiss and the other founders of a brave new university, …
Men on horses chasing Black asylum seekers? Sadly, America has seen it before
Horrified by the images of Haitian asylum seekers being met violently by men on horses? I know I was. I wrote this …