Karen Attiah

1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | Karen Attiah

Barack Obama is not your emotional support president (washingtonpost.com) Barack Obama is not your emotional support president By Karen Attiah 2025061612001800 America, no one is coming to save you. Especially not Barack Obama. We have once again seen the force of the U.S. security apparatus turned on its own people in recent days. The actions of Los Angeles police officers and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been deeply disturbing.

2 weeks ago | phillytrib.com | Karen Attiah

When he started as a Post contributing columnist in the fall of 2017, Jamal Khashoggi was trying, constructively, to pierce the futuristic illusions about Saudi Arabia that Mohammed bin Salman was selling to the world. MBS, as the Saudi crown prince is known, was pushing a gleaming vision of a cutting-edge Saudi Arabia, one with gaggles of robots, cities like something out of science fiction and tech investment galore.

4 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Karen Attiah

The budding bromance between authoritarianism and tech (washingtonpost.com) The budding bromance between authoritarianism and tech By Karen Attiah 2025052911304500 When he started as a Post contributing columnist in the fall of 2017, Jamal Khashoggi was trying, constructively, to pierce the futuristic illusions about Saudi Arabia that Mohammed bin Salman was selling to the world.

1 month ago | phillytrib.com | Karen Attiah

Singer André 3000 showed up with a grand piano strapped to his back, perhaps a reference to his carrying true music on his back for decades. But I have to say it was Black women who stunned the most at the recent Met Gala, one of fashion’s biggest nights of the year. Lupita Nyong’o brought out a light-blue suit with a flowing cape. A pregnant Rihanna showed off her baby bump in a formfitting skirt-suit with a cropped tuxedo jacket and dramatic wide-brimmed hat.

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Karen Attiah

The Met’s celebration of Black dandyism has a dark side (washingtonpost.com) The Met’s celebration of Black dandyism has a dark side By Karen Attiah 2025050617255400 Singer André 3000 showed up with a grand piano strapped to his back, perhaps a reference to his carrying true music on his back for decades. But I have to say it was Black women who stunned the most at Monday's Met Gala, one of fashion's biggest nights of the year.