Rafia Zakaria

The personal essay survives, it has simply moved house. Its new and surprising habitat is the jihadist magazine.

Novelty does not equal sinister media genius.

It was the miniskirts that did it. For many long months of Donald Trump’s unhinged presidency, his collection of stern-faced generals had been begging to send more troops into Afghanistan to stop hemorrhaging losses to the ascendant Taliban. The president did not want to do ...

A community under siege threatens to become a community in stasis, inching toward stagnation.

Earlier this month, America woke up to another mass shooting. The venue was a baseball field where members of the House GOP were practicing for the Congressional baseball game that was to be held that Friday. The target—or one of them at least—was House Majority whip ...

A refusal to assess damage is tantamount to caring only that a bombing occurs rather than what or whom it kills.

The United Nations’s sixty-first convening of its Commission on the Status of Women, ensconced in an impenetrable bureaucratic bubble. . .

My brother went to medical school at a state-run university in Pakistan. You had to be brilliant to get in, not just really smart but brilliant in the sense of perfect to the final percentage point. The list of admitted students was published on a bulletin board outside the ...