Aswini Anburajan

As we witnessed scenes of killing and rioting in the Arabic and Islamic world this weekend over the burning of a Quran in Florida, it’s easy to paint entire nations as extremist. Twenty-two people are dead, including seven United Nations workers and Afghan children. The sad part is that it appears that world events can […]

It’s worth revisiting this Robert Reich op-ed from two days ago in light of today’s jobs numbers. Reich points out that while job growth has grown slowly though not at the rate needed for recovery, consumer confidence is at it’s lowest since the Great Depression, largely because of the rise in fuel and commodity prices. […]

Pressure around the issue of deportation of undocumented immigrants appears to be coming to a boil, the Associated Press reports. The anger comes from a statement by President Obama at a Univision town hall that he couldn’t use executive orders as president. Obama had said that using executive orders “would not conform with my appropriate […]

As reports come in that CIA operatives are aiding Libyan rebels and Western leaders are considering arming them, the question of who Libya’s revolutionary force actually is — is worth answering. Juan Cole at Informed Comment makes the argument that the fears that the Libyan rebels are either al-Qaeda members, Hezbollah members, or other revolutionary […]

When I first joined NBC in 2005, I had a dream of going to Iraq and becoming a rising star. It was a formula that had made many other journalists before me leading commentators on world events including Richard Engel and Lara Logan. At that time, young journalists had flocked to the country and were […]

I wrote earlier this week that immigration activists are taking the same approach as gay rights activists in making a state-by-state push for the Dream Act. The concerns of both these groups dovetailed yesterday in an announcement by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services that gay couples who are married cannot apply for permanent […]

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Obama administration has launched a quiet attack on illegal immigration. The Immigrations and Customs Enforcement division [ICE] has been auditing firms, rechecking employment data. Two companies in recent months, Chipotle and Harvard Maintenance, have laid off around 1,000 workers. Critics of U.S. immigration policies on the left and […]

Think the Red Sox versus the Yankees at the World Series Final and then times that by a billion. Two nations are at a standstill today as they play for a spot in the finals of the Cricket World Cup. India versus Pakistan has caused schools to be let out early in India — a […]

The new AT&T T-Mobile merger has raised fears among Internet-privacy folks that further attacks on Net neutrality may be forthcoming. If anything is a testament as to why the Internet should stay free, open, and available to all, its Ushahidi — a crowd surfacing platform that allows users to input data to create crisis maps; […]

Three states may not be a watershed, but passage in three states of Dream Act-like bills shows a growing momentum for a national bill that would put the children of illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship if they attend college. Maryland’s Senate recently passed a bill that would allow undocumented students an opportunity to […]