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One of the more striking features of the 2016 U.S. election was the convergence of the rhetoric and talking points of President Donald Trump and his supporters with those of the Kremlin. And in the tangled and ongoing investigation of Russian involvement

In the days of the Trumpian order, American LGBT Muslims, a minority within minorities, find themselves especially vulnerable to the forces of racism, homophobia, and Islamophobia. As a member of this…

This morning’s presidential signing of an executive order “promoting free speech and religious liberty” isn’t the broad license to discriminate against LGBT people that many activists feared. Instead…

While some of Washington’s most revered journalists were being roasted by The Daily Show’s Hasan Minhaj at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, a different (though no less distinguished)…

In hosting the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner for the first time Saturday, The Daily Show’s “first-generation, Indian-American Muslim kid,” Hasan Minhaj, was in rare form, subjecting the D…

Today, after our invasion of Iraq led to the creation of Daesh, and after our silence in the face of murderous actions emboldened the Asad regime, we are intimately linked to the death of Syrians.

As part of a contentious fight with his ex-wife over custody of their three children, talk radio host Alex Jones has declared—or his lawyers have declared for him—that he’s a “ performance artist,”…

Remember, back in the olden days of late January 2017, when Sean Spicer and a host of other administration cronies promised that Trump was a steadfast ally of LGBT Americans, and that there were no…

As the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) got underway last Monday (it runs from March 13-24), the US State Department announced that joining the official US delegation would be…

Immigration exposes the tension between an idea of citizenship as identity and citizenship as a category of legal belonging.