Discussions of racial injustice in the United States are shaking the public sphere. Much of the onus in these discussions is on the white West as the locus and perpetrator of racism, especially on the United States with its lingering legacy of slavery. But racism, injustice, and discrimination are not prerogatives of the West. They […]
I recently wrote a memoir about my time serving with the US Department of State in Baghdad’s Green…
I met Rani (not her real name) in Adilabad district of Telangana in South India. It was late Spring of…
On July 17, 2017, President Donald Trump sent out the following three consecutive tweets: Only a year…
I stood in my 90-degree Fahrenheit living room in a bra and a pair of athletic shorts, watching the cold…
Sometimes, when I walk into a room — a conference room, a board room, an auditorium, a lecture hall — I count the Black and brown faces, all the ones I can find. I didn’t set out to create this practice. It happened one day, and I found it impossible to stop. I believe it […]
On a winter morning in Saharanpur, a town in Northern India, painter Shahid Hussain is at work, hoping to…
It is time to ditch the bridge-building framework for navigating the tensions between nuclear deterrence…
It has been exactly two years since the attempt to oust Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro failed. Since…
“I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.” —…
This piece is the second chapter of a two part series. You can read the first chapter here. In Cali, as…
When I arrived in Cali, people here sold me on the idea that the city was violent. When I asked how to…
September 11, 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that took down the World Trade…
The tense call from my husband came when I was on a break between panels during a US Special Operations…