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 …
I wrote this essay for The Guardian on the shooting in Buffalo. Few may realize that the alleged shooter copied the manifesto …
I wrote this essay for The Guardian about how our powerful tech platforms like Facebook and Instagram act very differently when people …
Are Ukrainians more deserving of sympathy than Afghans and Iraqis? Many seem to think so, and I investigate this problem in an …
As if the border isn’t surveilled and militarized enough, the Department of Homeland Security wants to go full Black Mirror. I wrote …
Recognizing that jury reached the right verdict – even as the criminal justice system did everything it could to exonerate the three …
Horrified by the images of Haitian asylum seekers being met violently by men on horses? I know I was. I wrote this …
This is the second article I wrote on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. This piece, for The …
This is the first of two pieces I wrote for the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. This piece, from The Nation, …
I was honored to be asked by TEDxCUNY to deliver a lecture. Originally, I was supposed to give this talk last spring, …
The language we use to discuss immigration is dehumanizing: ‘catch and release’, ‘migrant caravans’, swarms – anything, in other words, but people. …