Racism

Daniel Penny’s lawyers used a racist defense strategy and it worked

I wrote this essay for The Guardian, highlighting a fundamentally racist argument that Penny’s lawyeres used in the trial, that it was …

I wrote this brief comment, “Between hate and nothing, hate won,” about the 2024 election for The Guardian. So, it will be …

I spoke with the acclaimed writer Ta-Nehisi Coates about his new book The Message for The Guardian. He has a lot of …

I joined a panel of commentators at The Guardian to assess the Walz/Vance vice-presidential debate of Oct. 1, 2024. The first question …

The kind of lies that Donald Trump and JD Vance traffic in sets a dangerous new precedent in our political culture, I …

Immediately following the first presidential debate, I wrote a quick response as part of a panel of responses for The Guardian. My …

Haley writing ‘finish them’ on an Israeli bomb is everything horrific about the US elite’s morally empty foreign policy, I explain in …

I wrote this feature for The Guardian on how it is often assumed that Islamophobia is the driving force behind US anti-Palestinian …

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 …

I wrote this essay about my old professor, Edward Said. As war rages in Gaza, Said’s words feel prescient. That’s because so …