On Trump’s latest arrests of immigrants
I wrote this piece for The Nation: On February 8, Aboubacar Dembele went to a Bronx courthouse to resolve an assault charge …
The Year I Stopped Breathing: On Being Muslim and American in the Age of Trump
I wrote this essay for The Nation, reflecting on what life is like one year after the Trump presidency. It took a …
Jared Kushner is wreaking havoc in the Middle East
I wrote this for The Guardian: The entire Middle East, from Palestine to Yemen, appears set to burst into flames after this …
The supreme court upheld bigotry before. Its Muslim ban ruling does it again
At The Guardian: The US supreme court has decided that the Trump administration’s Muslim ban can proceed in full, even as legal …
We must end the terror double standards
I wrote this essay for The Guardian. The horrible terrorist attack in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday has so far left us with …
What’s a ‘lone wolf’? It’s the special name we give white terrorists
I wrote this essay for The Guardian on the Las Vegas shooting and why we treat domestic and foreign terrorism differently. We …
America’s soul as a nation of immigrants is in peril
I wrote this essay about the end of DACA for The Guardian. The Trump administration appears determined to kill off the idea of …
Trump is ignoring the Minnesota mosque bombing. We know why
After a Minnesota mosque was bombed, I wrote a piece for The Guardian about the president’s silence. The key portion—more relevant now …
How the ‘homophobic Muslim’ became a populist bogeyman
The latest Pew Research Center survey had many interesting results. In this article for The Guardian, I examine one of them, and …
What is to be done about the USA?
Is the United States in trouble? Is it on the verge of becoming a failed state? I ask these questions in The …