Can the K-pop boyband BTS … save the world?
I wrote this essay for The Guardian on the South Korean megastar boyband BTS. Their sunny pop-optimism and ‘Army’ of fans are …
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 …
About that new University of Austin and free speech…
For The Guardian, I wrote this essay, in which I congratulate Bari Weiss and the other founders of a brave new university, …
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 …
Dangerous outsiders and exceptional citizens: being Muslim American since 9/11
This is the second article I wrote on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. This piece, for The …
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, …
My cover story in The Nation magazine
I’ve been following the Manhattan District Attorney race closely (and, if you’re interested in reforming our legal system, you should be, too). …
Joe Biden’s silence in the face of Israeli violence is a disgrace
I wrote this piece for The Guardian. In it, I discuss how cracks are emerging in the wall that has historically separated …
The Biden administration has ended use of the phrase “illegal alien.” It’s about time
The language we use to discuss immigration is dehumanizing: ‘catch and release’, ‘migrant caravans’, swarms – anything, in other words, but people. …
ICE reached a new low: using utility bills to hunt undocumented immigrants
Did you know that our government has effectively been forcing people to choose between heat in their apartment and the risk of …