In recent years, I’ve written about the story of Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh man who was murdered in Arizona in the first documented hate crime in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The gunman — who apparently mistook Sodhi for a Muslim — reportedly declared during his arrest: “I stand for America all the way!” The bigotry Sodhi encountered has always seemed — to me, at least — analogous to the racist and xenophobic entitlement that Donald Trump and many of his followers express toward nonwhite people, particularly...

When President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House on January 20, journalists will likely be on high alert given his previous threats of vengeance against his critics in the media. And one journalist isn't sure if the Fourth Estate will be up to the task of reporting honestly on his administration. During a Friday night interview on MSNBC, Vanity Fair special correspondent Molly Jong-Fast opined that the prospect of the president of the United States using the force of his office to hound reporters was a "scary" scenario. And...