Marwan Marouf, a Palestinian American community leader In Dallas, faces deportation by ICE, which has accused him of potential ties to terrorism. His crime? Fiscal sponsorship of an orphan in Palestine. Marouf, who serves as director of the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the Muslim-American Society, was put in handcuffs and escorted into an unmarked SUV […]
The National Press Club of Australia cancelled my talk on how the media, by amplifying Israeli lies, have betrayed Palestinian journalists, 278 of whom have been assassinated by Israel.
The Trump administration has repeatedly claimed that it needs to send the military into American cities because of the unique danger faced by federal agents enforcing immigration laws. In October, President Donald Trump claimed the National Guard was required in Illinois to protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents facing a “coordinated assault by violent groups.” […]
The movement to protect the long-obscured sites allows communities to reckon with painful histories through healing, remembrance and ancestral connection.
Two groups of clergy challenged a Washington state law meant to help fight child abuse – but which could have required clergy to break the seal of confession.
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For decades, Khoji Wesselius has noticed the oily scent of pesticides during spraying periods when the wind has blown through his tiny farming village in a rural corner of the Netherlands. Now, after volunteering in an experiment to count […]
Last week, the New York Times reported a rare bright spot in public health: The number of children who suffer from potentially life-threatening food allergies has declined sharply since the government changed its guidelines around early exposure to products containing common allergens such as peanuts. Federal guidelines had long recommended that parents avoid feeding babies […]