Vance or Walz: who won the VP debate? Our panel responds
I joined a panel of commentators at The Guardian to assess the Walz/Vance vice-presidential debate of Oct. 1, 2024. The first question …
With their lies about Haitian immigrants, Trump and Vance have reached a new low
The kind of lies that Donald Trump and JD Vance traffic in sets a dangerous new precedent in our political culture, I …
Who won Kamala Harris and Donald Trump’s first debate?
I joined a panel of commentators at The Guardian to assess the Harris/Trump debate of September 10, 2024. For the entirety of …
Gaza just had its first polio victim in 25 years. This war cannot continue
As I write in The Guardian, polio is a contagious disease that thrives on misery – and Israeli bombardment has destroyed 70% …
Revealed: first picture of war on terror detainee in CIA black site
In this exclusive report for The Guardian, I am able to reveal the public’s first look at picture of a War on …
Donald Trump sure makes a lot of ‘jokes’ about ruling as a dictator, doesn’t he?
I wrote this essay for The Guardian, on how Donald Trump’s messaging draws from the strategies of the far right – and …
Trump v Biden in the first 2024 presidential debate: a catastrophe
Immediately following the first presidential debate, I wrote a quick response as part of a panel of responses for The Guardian. My …
Toys, spices, sewing machines: the items Israel banned from entering Gaza
I wrote this text for The Guardian to accompany Mona Chalabi’s illustrations depicting some of the items Israel has banned from entering …
Why is Nikki Haley scrawling genocidal messages on Israeli bombs?
Haley writing ‘finish them’ on an Israeli bomb is everything horrific about the US elite’s morally empty foreign policy, I explain in …
Decades of spying and repression: the anti-Palestinian origins of American Islamophobia
I wrote this feature for The Guardian on how it is often assumed that Islamophobia is the driving force behind US anti-Palestinian …