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 …
Threats against Palestinian, Muslim and Jewish people has spiked since the war began
I had the honor to speak with Mary Louise Kelly of NPR’s All Things Considered regarding the spike in threats to Palestinians, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Can the K-pop boyband BTS … save the world?
I wrote this essay for The Guardian on the South Korean megastar boyband BTS. Their sunny pop-optimism and ‘Army’ of fans are …
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 …