How we learned all the wrong lessons from 9/11
This is another piece for the The Guardian. I hope you find it worthwhile: I was in New York City 15 years …
Trump has made it clear exactly who should be barred from the US: himself
I wrote this piece for The Guardian. In his major policy speech on foreign policy delivered yesterday in the battleground state of …
Guess what? You can be a Muslim American and oppose misguided wars
I wrote this piece for The Guardian. Khizr Khan very nearly stole the show from Hillary Clinton at last night’s Democratic national …
It’s not just Trump – the US is gripped by anti-Muslim hysteria
I wrote this piece for The Guardian. The New York Times reported last week that climate change is forcing environmental researchers to …
Register Muslims? Been there, done that. And it failed.
I wrote this piece for The Progressive. Since the terrorist attacks in Paris, the political rhetoric directed against Muslims from the Republican …
So, I rewrote the Mayor of Roanoke’s statement on admitting Syrian Refugees
The Mayor of Roanoke, Virginia has approvingly cited Japanese internment (or, “sequester” in his words) as justification for refusing admission to Syrian …
Why Do They Hate Us?
The venerable magazine The Nation is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. (Happy Anniversary!) They asked me to contribute to an extraordinary …
From Surveillance to Civil Rights
I’ve been working on this story over the summer and am pleased that it’s now published as the cover story of this …
Spied on for Being Muslim
I wrote this comment for The Nation. There is a grocery store near my apartment in Brooklyn called the NSA Food Markets …