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 …
How the War on Terror Created the “Muslim American”
This is the first of two pieces I wrote for the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. This piece, from The Nation, …
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 …
In America’s news headlines, Palestinians die mysterious deaths
I wrote this essay for The Guardian. It is the peculiar fate of oppressed people everywhere that when they are killed, they …
Why is Sean Hannity peddling bonkers conspiracy theories?
Here’s a piece I wrote for The Guardian about the impending demise of Sean Hannity on Fox News. Persistence is a funny …
Bill O’Reilly is vile. His departure from Fox is long overdue
Here’s an essay of mine about the sudden departure of Bill O’Reilly from Fox News, published in The Guardian. Is anyone looking …
This Muslim American Life, new book, released today (and in the NYT)
My new book, This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror, is now available. The New York Times has a brief …
Things I learned from watching Zero Dark Thirty
Things I learned from watching Zero Dark Thirty. 1. It’s fine, really, to wear an Ann Taylor suit to your first torture …