This post was updated Oct. 7 at 2:38 p.m. Essentials. That’s what I was supposed to pack as I watched the fires crest the hills near the Sepulveda Pass, a few miles from my home. I started with ...

Illustration by Noah Hickey. Photo of pro-Palestinian demonstrators at Columbia University by Spencer Platt/Getty Images. Photo of pro-Palestinian protesters at City College of New York by Alex ...

From an early age, I spent my Friday afternoons seated shoulder-to-shoulder amid Muslims, on the soft carpet in our beloved mosque. Seated all over were multitudes of people from various walks of life ...