Taameen Mohammad

Washington, D.C.

Senior Production Editor at National Journal

Senior Production Editor @nationaljournal Journalism/IR AU'19 Grad. Big on multimedia. Email me [email protected] past @voanews @theeagleonline

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Articles

'We are not partisan': Federal worker unions fight DOGE cuts

Feb 19, 2025 | nationaljournal.com | Philip Athey |Taameen Mohammad

President Trump’s unprecedented flurry of executive orders targeting the federal bureaucracy has roiled the livelihoods of millions of workers, prompting advocates and labor unions to ratchet up legal actions. “Every day, there's a new story being pushed from this administration that causes anxiety and concern for my membership on just how they're going to function. How are they going to live?” said American Federation of Government Employees National Secretary-Treasurer Eric Bunn.
Q+A with Milan Vaishnav

Jun 26, 2024 | nationaljournal.com | Cristina Maza |Taameen Mohammad

India’s general election was decided earlier this month with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), winning another term in the lower house of Indian parliament. However, Modi’s party lost seats, while the opposing India Congress Party and their INDIA Alliance gained seats.
‘You’re not alone’: Biden takes aim at antisemitism as GOP demands tougher action

May 7, 2024 | nationaljournal.com | Tom DeFrank |Taameen Mohammad |Shauna Muckle |Katherine Swartz

Before President Biden’s speech to mark the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Days of Remembrance at the Capitol on Tuesday, critics had warned him not to take a “both sides” approach to antisemitism and pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses. They needn’t have worried. For 16 minutes, his focus was riveted on countering attacks against Jews.
‘New momentum’: DEA marijuana reclassification reignites federal legalization conversation in Congress

Apr 30, 2024 | nationaljournal.com | Savannah Behrmann |Taameen Mohammad |Shauna Muckle |Philip Athey

A yearslong effort to federally legalize cannabis is catching fire in Washington. Following reports that the Drug Enforcement Administration is planning to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I drug down to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act—categorizing it as a less dangerous substance—advocates see an opportunity to make what was once a pipe dream into a reality: ending the federal prohibition on marijuana. Their biggest obstacle? Congress.
The World We Live In

Feb 29, 2024 | nationaljournal.com | Taameen Mohammad

Presidents have long wrestled with the question of where American involvement in foreign conflicts begins and ends. In 2019, then-candidate Biden vowed on the campaign trail to end “forever wars” in Afghanistan. Now President Biden faces numerous foreign conflicts with escalating regional instability. Biden’s approval rating hasn’t recovered since the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan.
SEC decision boosts bitcoin, but is it enough to take it mainstream?

Jan 16, 2024 | nationaljournal.com | Savannah Behrmann |Taameen Mohammad |Philip Athey |Casey Wooten

A rocky rollout. Lingering doubts. Concerns about “illicit activity.” Cryptocurrency’s historic entry into U.S. financial markets last week was a consequential moment, but it also revealed some of the hurdles the industry still has to vault over before it receives widespread acceptance and acclimation. On Jan.
Q+A with Daniel Grossman

Nov 29, 2023 | nationaljournal.com | Natalie Jackson |Mackenzie Weinger |Savannah Behrmann |Taameen Mohammad

Daniel Grossman is the director of the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health program at the University of California (San Francisco) and is a steering-committee member of the Free the Pill coalition, which has been working since 2004 to support the availability of over-the-counter birth-control pills in the U.S. Grossman spoke with Erin Durkin about the implications of the first over-the-counter birth-control pill, Opill, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration over...
Great moments in presidential birthdays

Nov 20, 2023 | nationaljournal.com | Taameen Mohammad

Monday was President Biden’s birthday. But it was OK with almost everybody in the White House if you didn’t notice. There were no cakes to be seen, no renditions of “Happy Birthday” to be heard, no candles to be blown out—at least not in public view. Biden turned 81, an age none of his predecessors got anywhere near. But the only public acknowledgement of the historic turn of the calendar came from the Birthday Boy himself.
Texas A&M opens another red-state front in the 'woke wars'

Jul 24, 2023 | nationaljournal.com | Taameen Mohammad |Savannah Behrmann |Mini Racker |Tom DeFrank

A highly regarded, tenured professor at the University of Texas and, ironically, a 1981 A&M graduate, McElroy was recruited with great fanfare to salvage a struggling journalism program. She even rated a rare public signing ceremony on the academic quadrangle’s front lawn last month. Then, suddenly, her appointment fell victim to insinuations that she was a dreaded DEI plant.