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 …
As Biden ignores death in Gaza, the ‘Dark Brandon’ meme is unfunny and too real
In The Guardian, I write about Joe Biden’s tone-deaf use of social media. Until the president stops Israel’s violence, an evil-looking Biden …
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. …
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 …
Why is Joe Biden campaigning for Donald Trump?
I wrote this piece for The Guardian. The US president is helping to build Donald Trump’s southern border wall. What is he …
On Ammar al-Baluchi
Over 20 years ago, Ammar al-Baluchi was snatched from the streets of Karachi, and then delivered to the CIA several days later. …