Donald Trump has been charged. The swamp is finally being drained
I wrote this for The Guardian on Trump’s arraignment, which marks the day when he began to be held criminally accountable. And …
The Iraq war started the post-truth era. And America is to blame
Twenty years ago, the United States led an invasion of Iraq. There is much to say about this colossal mistake, but this …
When it comes to immigration policy, Biden is increasingly Trump-like
In The Guardian, I argue that when it comes to immigration policy–especially on the US’s southern border–what we really need is a …
Republicans have a serious antisemitism problem. It isn’t Ilhan Omar
In this essay for The Guardian, I point out that Republican antisemitism is deep in the party today. Who remembers how, in …
Biden is throwing migrants under the bus to appease Republican fearmongering
In this piece, for The Guardian, I argue that while the Biden administration criticizes conservatives as anti-immigrant, it pursues policies not so …
Division Is America’s Natural State
Did the War on Terror, with its brazen contempt for existing institutions and established rule of law, launch the USA’s latest creep …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Dangerous outsiders and exceptional citizens: being Muslim American since 9/11
This is the second article I wrote on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. This piece, for The …