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Rummana Hussain

Editorial board member and columnist

Rummana Hussain is an editorial board member and a columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times.

Fifty-three journalists have been killed in the Middle East since Oct. 7, including 46 Palestinians, four Israelis and three Lebanese, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Israel’s relentless siege to punish members of Hamas for last week’s deadly attack has only led to the carnage of more innocent souls in the Gaza Strip.
Neither Taylor Swift nor Beyoncé will find themselves begging for more articles or air time even without a hype man or woman from Gannett, which laid off hundreds of staffers in its news division a year ago.
The most superficial beef I have with directors who are not Greta Gerwig: The pairing of schlubby or awkwardly dorky men — think Woody Allen — with conventionally attractive women.
Northwestern’s controversies over hazing and racism in its sports programs took me back to the time my brother laughed off a high school football coach’s racist digs toward him and his friend.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be arriving in the United States for his first official state visit this week. While some Indian Americans will be cheering Modi on, others will be protesting the far-right leader’s appearance, hoping to draw attention to India’s dismal human rights track record.
I guess for Ramaswamy, the Republican presidential candidate supposedly bent on “out-Trumping” Donald Trump, watching a clip of Chicagoans shouting “We don’t want them here” and “Close the border” was incentive to rush back to the city, like his immigrant mother and father did years ago when they ran out of daal.
I almost fell for the viral video that falsely shows President Joe Biden walk away from British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak without addressing him. Too many of us are getting duped on social media.
The devastation of the pandemic and lockdown only heightened the feeling that we don’t get to see our loved ones overseas enough, and left us wondering if flying to India would ever be possible again.