Beenish Ahmed

A high-stakes criminal case is forcing a tight-knit Midwestern Muslim sect to reckon with its most dangerous practice.

Candidates like Abdul El-Sayed, who's running for governor of Michigan and has drawn comparisons to Barack Obama, are unafraid of any Trump effect.

Indiana is one of just five states in America without a law against hate crimes.

It's a lot more complicated when you aren't in the majority.

Trump's travel ban has many fretting that it could fuel more Islamophobia.

But for now, he'll settle for defending Obamacare.

No, you can't trick the feds and help Muslims by falsely registering yourself as one. But you can get active in a bunch of other important ways. Here's how.

Amid a deluge of terrorist attacks abroad and mass shootings at home, American parents are doing what they can to keep their kids safe without inciting panic.

Fawzia Mirza, a Chicago-based actress and writer, created the character of Ayesha Trump as a way to explain the reasons behind the candidate's most outrageous and hateful rhetoric.

Exploring the faith-based limitations placed on menstruating women in nearly every major religion—from Islam to Judaism to Christianity to Hinduism.

Then, as now, people came together in anger over how the police, and society at large, were treating young black people.

For a lot of American Muslims, conversations with their kids about the perils of interacting with police or security officers came up in the wake of 9/11—and have resurfaced after the murders in Chapel Hill.