Recently Muslim Americans, including Muslim North Carolinians, have felt under attack.

A controversy over a Mosque near Ground Zero has raged for weeks. Certainly there is nothing wrong with discussing, in a civil manner, the best way to develop land near the site of the attacks to avoid division and hard feelings. But many seem to think the debate gives them a right to . . . → Read More: Burning the Quran? Are we still in America?

This past weekend, an essay in the New York Times Book Review argued that business reporters are failing to adequately cover the financial crisis. The author, Chrystia Freeland, says the problem is that people don’t want to hear about the large systemic weaknesses that were the true cause of the economic meltdown. Instead, they want to hear stories about people, about heroes and villains.

. . . → Read More: Immigration is a human story

Many of us tend to think of immigration status in black and white terms. You’re either here legally or illegally, and there is no blurry line between the two. But this week’s edition of The Story on National Public Radio is the perfect example of the gray area that many immigrants fall into. A North Carolina couple has ended up separated indefinitely because of . . . → Read More: Immigrating to the U.S.: More complicated than we think?