Islamophobia

Like his predecessor, the president is decrying anti-Arab and Muslim hatred while helping fuel it. People are refusing to let him get away with this hypocrisy.

An immigrant born to working-class activism stands up to an NYPD reborn in the CIA's image.

Approaching the 20th anniversary of the attacks, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center faces a reckoning.

A preview of Trumpism in 2010 protests against a proposed mosque in lower Manhattan.

Stacy Fahrenthold compares Donald Trump's Muslim ban to that of Woodrow Wilson back in 1918.

On the eve of World War 2, most Americans opposed granting asylum to Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler.

The “war on terror” led to a sweeping curtailment of immigrants’ rights that swept up green card holders as well as citizens.

How a clerk on Ellis Island at the dawn of the 20th century documented discrimination through photography, and what that tells us about today’s malaise.

In the wake of the September 11 attacks, evangelical American missionaries followed military tanks into Afghanistan and Iraq to convert Muslims.

His “Clash of Civilizations” essay in Foreign Affairs turned 30 this year. It was provocative, influential, manna for the modern right—and completely and utterly not true.

With the emergence of the US as a global superpower in the twentieth-century, anti-Palestinian stereotypes in the media bled over to stigmatize Arab Americans.

Jews from the Ottoman Empire pioneered the Christmas lights market a century ago — but nativism, antisemitism and islamophobia obscured this history.

Stuart compares the shared values of Christian nationalists and the Nation of Islam in the 1960's and today.

Twenty years after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the museum is still struggling to address the legacy of those events.

From the beginning, the War on Terror merged red-hot vengeance with calculated opportunism. Millions are still paying the price.

Should 9/11 remembrances include the global war on terror?

How a term that sounds inclusive is used to promote exclusion.

The National Conservatism Conference in Washington had a very 1930s vibe.

Gravely inaccurate 19th-century depictions of the destruction of Rome are used to illustrate parallels between Rome and the U.S.

White supremacists are co-opting the Middle Ages. Fighting back requires us to tell better, fuller stories about the period.

The ADL's influence on U.S. politics mobilizes against Black and Arab leaders, enforces pro-Israel stances, and capitalizes on anti-hate efforts.

Edward Said's Orientalism is still with us forty years after his influential book’s publication, but it is not the same as it was.

Muslims came to America more than a century before Protestants, and in great numbers. How was their history forgotten?

This is the man who has criticized the FBI's surveillance of Martin Luther King as "shameful."

Inspired by Trump's election and his anti-immigrant policies, a group of scholars compiled this collection on the idea of "sanctuary."

The writings of the late Harvard political scientist anticipate America's political and intellectual battles -- and point to the country we may become.

How a South Asian immigrant became a Wyoming fast-food legend and received American citizenship - twice.

What does it mean to be Muslim in America? And how has the practice of Islam in the U.S. changed over time?

The fears that were conjured by nativists 80 years ago are chillingly similar to what we're hearing today.

From India to the Amazon to Israel, bulldozers have left a path of destruction that offers a cautionary tale for how technology can be misused.