Hi there! I’m a New York-based writer and reporter, and currently co-executive producer on the late night news-comedy TV show, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. I’ve reported and written about food, pop culture, immigration, politics and growing up as a weird Muslim teen in the Texas suburbs. In a past life, I was a campaign reporter. Get in touch with me at nfkhan96@gmail.com and subscribe to my very semi-occasional newsletter here.
Television
Undoing the damage of Trump’s immigration policies
The last free and fair elections
Kris Kobach’s racist music man
How prosecutors drive mass incarceration, part I, part II, and part III
Writing
Culture
Bon Appetit: The Nostalgic Glory of the ’90s Chinese Buffet
Bitch Media: The Costly Quest for Superhuman Strength
Zora Mag: Lane Kim of Gilmore Girls Defied First-Generation Expectations
The Atlantic: The Tony-Nominated Play That Savages the U.S. Constitution
CNN’s Parts Unknown: Making hudutu in a Garifuna kitchen
CNN’s Parts Unknown: A deli with a side of nostalgia
ESSAYS
NYT Opinion: What Happened to the Country That Made Us Citizens?
Buzzfeed Reader: Without "Chain Migration" My Family Wouldn't Be Together
Gen Mag: How I Got Radicalized—Unlearning Toxic Taboos with Carmen Electra’s Stripper Workout Tape
politics
Vice News: These Congresswomen protested Clarence Thomas.
Here's what they're doing about Kavanaugh.
Vice News: These taxi drivers thought they were buying the American dream. Instead, they got despair.
Al Jazeera America: $10 an hour, with no way out
Al Jazeera America: In South Dakota’s Indian Country, getting to the polls is half the struggle
Al Jazeera America: In Washington State, where a gun is not a weapon
Al Jazeera America: Casino lights dim in Atlantic City, as leaders plot to revive city
Al Jazeera America: Barely getting by in Laurel County, KY
Al Jazeera America: Rand Paul: 'White kids don’t get the same justice'
Al Jazeera America: Scott Walker’s immigration policies cause fear in Wisconsin’s dairyland