Commentary / World Feb 12, 2019

See Iran's revolution as Iranians do

It was not about "Muslim rage." It was a rebellion against a Westernized, undemocratic technocracy.

Commentary / World Jun 22, 2018

The America before Trump wasn't so fantastic either

Making a better future requires an unsentimental reckoning with the past.

Commentary / World Jun 15, 2017

Why the media keeps missing political earthquakes

The widely embraced political certainties of the 1980s and 1990s are dead, and those who still cling to them are condemned to repeat, "I was wrong."

Commentary / World Aug 23, 2016

Suu Kyi's greatest challenge is to share power

Myanmar's new government should strive to accomodate the country's ethnic minorities through greater autonomy and federalism.

Commentary / World Jul 29, 2016

A brutal majority in Kashmir and elsewhere

The rise of a rabid majoritarianism is part of a larger rejection of politics based on reason and dialogue.

Commentary / World May 10, 2016

Trumpism suffers a loss in London

Trumpism, or the politics of hate and fear, suffered a major defeat last week with the election of a Muslim as mayor of London.

Commentary / World Dec 18, 2015

Muslims should be grateful to Donald Trump

Like anti-Semitism, Islamophobia breeds in the swamp of fear and insecurity that is truly the modern world for many people.

Commentary / World Oct 19, 2015

Beyond India's beef with beef, new hatreds grow

Religious extremism in South Asia is symptomatic of a larger phenomenon: the shattering of the postcolonial order under the stresses of a massive economic and demographic transition.