Zaid Jilani

Zaid Jilani is a freelance journalist who previously worked as a staff reporter for NewsNation, The Intercept, AlterNet and ThinkProgress. He currently maintains a Substack newsletter called The American Saga. He lives outside Atlanta, Georgia.

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A new study shows that when it comes to performance, there isn’t much to either fear or to gain from diversifying.

In the past month, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has sat down to conduct just one full-length interview with a reporter , an appearance conducted jointly with her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.

The fashionable way for any writer from a minority background to recall their life story these days is to tell the reader about how hard things

A new Siena College/ New York Times poll is the latest to point to a new trend in the presidential race.

As I write this, the Washington Post has reportedly lost over 250,000 paid subscribers after choosing not to endorse a presidential candidate in this year’s election. There’s no guarantee that all of those unsubscribes are due to the decision — and the figure has come from an anonymous source — but there’s no doubt that [...]Read More...

As state election workers are facing unprecedented threats, officials, lawmakers and activists are striving to keep the voting system running smoothly

There was a moment that occurred a few days before Election Day that few Americans heard about, but I doubt it would surprise them.

“Trump’s pro-Israel cabinet picks upset Muslims who voted for him,” reads a Reuters headline from this week. In the piece, a range of Muslim Americans who voted for the President-elect lament that he has chosen several cabinet officials who favour a strong security relationship with Israel and who have downplayed the rights of the Palestinians. “It [...]Read More...