On the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth, I have a dream that one day GOP leaders and Democratic “moderates” will learn to stop using him as a mascot to launder their steadfast commitment to minority white rule. Every year on this day, it seems the worst people, without…

Urine or Vaccines: The Choice for America’s Future I was so ignorant, naive, and misguided. …

My Quest to Obtain the PS5: Or, Rediscovering America and The Holiday Spirit WAJAHAT ALI DEC 31, 2021 In this season of pandemic and anxiety, I re-discovered the holiday spirit and old-fashioned American neighborliness while freezing with other geeks to buy a PS5. Last weekend, my friend Razi, a fellow…

What better choice do we have? — Despite witnessing an unrelenting onslaught of death, uncertainty, and chaos around us, you should still have hope for a better 2022. I understand that asking you to invest in hope during this latest Omicron surge is the equivalent of me being the much-memed, wide-eyed cartoon dog drinking coffee in the…

WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT OMICRON Wajahat Ali Dec 23, 2021 (Photo: Bryan R. Smith/Getty Images) You might be done with coronavirus, but coronavirus isn’t done with you. Covid-19, like most diseases, doesn’t care about our holiday plans, our concert tickets, our maddening exasperation from lockdown, or the annoyance of…

Wajahat Ali December 16, 2021 The GOP and its leadership should be hired by Hollywood producers based on their inexhaustible creativity and remarkable talent to manufacture imaginary bogeymen to terrify their base, incite racial anxiety, and propose hateful solutions to non-existent problems. Thanks to the intrepid and brave GOP Mystery…

Ten years ago, on November 27, I almost died in 24 Hour Fitness while wearing oversized black gym shorts and sweating profusely in a white Hanes undershirt. I wish I could say it was after completing a Herculean workout, but, sadly, it wasn’t. I passed out after a few minutes…

Ahmaud Arbery’s murderers being brought to justice is a small victory in a never-ending fight — This Thanksgiving, I’m thankful that three men who decided to hunt and lynch Ahmaud Arbery for the crime of jogging while Black in America can still be found guilty by a mostly White jury of their peers. (No anti-lynching bill has been passed by Congress into federal law. …