Why did Trump win, and what comes next? Our panel reacts
I wrote this brief comment, “Between hate and nothing, hate won,” about the 2024 election for The Guardian. So, it will be …
‘I don’t have much hope for a Harris presidency’: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Israeli apartheid and what the media gets wrong about Palestine
I spoke with the acclaimed writer Ta-Nehisi Coates about his new book The Message for The Guardian. He has a lot of …
Vance or Walz: who won the VP debate? Our panel responds
I joined a panel of commentators at The Guardian to assess the Walz/Vance vice-presidential debate of Oct. 1, 2024. The first question …
With their lies about Haitian immigrants, Trump and Vance have reached a new low
The kind of lies that Donald Trump and JD Vance traffic in sets a dangerous new precedent in our political culture, I …
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 …
Decades of spying and repression: the anti-Palestinian origins of American Islamophobia
I wrote this feature for The Guardian on how it is often assumed that Islamophobia is the driving force behind US anti-Palestinian …
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 …
Edward Said seems like a prophet: 20 years on, ‘there’s hunger for his narrative’
I wrote this essay about my old professor, Edward Said. As war rages in Gaza, Said’s words feel prescient. That’s because so …
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. …