This year has been crazy. And what’s crazier is being tasked with reporting on the crazy.

Not everything has to be a win. The coronavirus pandemic isn’t a game, but the excuses made by the Trump administration make it feel like one.

It’s a journalist’s duty to disseminate knowledge, not to “hold onto a scoop” in order to pocket the money from a book that rides off the wake of one of the biggest modern elections in history.

I am proud of my culture and of my heritage. I will not let my people’s representation die out because the U.S. Census Bureau refuses to make “Middle Eastern” a category in 2020.