If the El Paso shooter had been Muslim …
I wrote this essay, asking what would have happened had the El Paso been a Muslim, for The Guardian. If the El …
Trump and the El Paso massacre
I wrote this comment for The Guardian. Donald Trump continues to play his cynical game of dodging responsibility, shifting blame and exploiting …
Is showing compassion to migrants a crime?
I wrote this essay for The Guardian on a disturbing trend happening today in many Western countries: On 11 June, a federal …
Massacre in New Zealand
Iwrote two pieces in response to the horrific mass shooting of 50 Muslim worshipers in New Zealand by a white supremacist. In …
The Muslim ban ruling legitimates Trump’s bigotry
I wrote this for The Guardian. The US supreme court has upheld the Trump administration’s Muslim ban. By doing so, the court has …
On Trump’s latest arrests of immigrants
I wrote this piece for The Nation: On February 8, Aboubacar Dembele went to a Bronx courthouse to resolve an assault charge …
The supreme court upheld bigotry before. Its Muslim ban ruling does it again
At The Guardian: The US supreme court has decided that the Trump administration’s Muslim ban can proceed in full, even as legal …
America’s soul as a nation of immigrants is in peril
I wrote this essay about the end of DACA for The Guardian. The Trump administration appears determined to kill off the idea of …
More on the Muslim Ban
In this essay, written for The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, I look at Trump’s Muslim ban in some more depth. I’ve …
On the Supreme Court’s ruling re: Trump’s Travel Ban
I wrote this piece for The Guardian, wherein I argue that the Supreme Court’s decision to lift many of the injunctions on …