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 …
Donald Trump sure makes a lot of ‘jokes’ about ruling as a dictator, doesn’t he?
I wrote this essay for The Guardian, on how Donald Trump’s messaging draws from the strategies of the far right – and …
Trump v Biden in the first 2024 presidential debate: a catastrophe
Immediately following the first presidential debate, I wrote a quick response as part of a panel of responses for The Guardian. My …
Why is Nikki Haley scrawling genocidal messages on Israeli bombs?
Haley writing ‘finish them’ on an Israeli bomb is everything horrific about the US elite’s morally empty foreign policy, I explain in …
Decades of spying and repression: the anti-Palestinian origins of American Islamophobia
I wrote this feature for The Guardian on how it is often assumed that Islamophobia is the driving force behind US anti-Palestinian …
Republican congressmen are now talking about throwing migrants from helicopters
Anti-migrant rhetoric has reached the point of a congressman citing a far-right meme about Augusto Pinochet’s death-flights, I write for The Guardian. …
Millions of Palestinians rely on UNRWA. Why is the US suspending funding based on Israeli accusations?
Twelve of the agency’s 13,000 Gaza employees were allegedly part of the 7 October attack – so the US and its allies …
The US election looms. Arab Americans feel stuck between a rock and a hard place
For The Guardian, I wrote about how Arab, Muslim and younger voters face a choice between Biden, who does little to stop …
Biden officials decry Trump’s anti-migrant xenophobia – yet quietly copy his stance
I wrote this for The Guardian about Trump’s odious rhetoric about the border. It must be rejected, of course, but the real …
The Harvard and UPenn presidents walked into a trap in Congress
I wrote this essay for The Guardian, about how three university presidents from elite institutions were asked about non-existent calls for genocide …