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Umar Farooq

Umar Farooq is a journalist and activist, based in New York. Follow him at the umar farooq blog and on Twitter, @UmarFarooq_

A policeman pulls over a driver, getting out of the police car to write a traffic ticket. (Getty Images/kali9)

How police have undermined the promise of body cameras

Eric Umansky, Umar Farooq
BITTER SPRINGS, ARIZONA - JANUARY 1: A rainbow is seen above homes in the Navajo Nation, on January 1, 2023 in Bitter Springs, Arizona. Reports say that nearly 40% of Navajo Nation is living without running water. Despite living near the Colorado River the Navajo Nation was left out of talks almost a hundred years ago when rule makers were drawing up the Colorado River Compact.(Photo by RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

How Arizona stands between tribes and their water

Mark Olalde, Umar Farooq, Anna V. Smith
The site of a drone attack near Miranshah, Pakistan, in October 2008. (Reuters/Haji Mujtaba)

Our immoral drone war

Umar Farooq