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Asian Americans
September 11, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Somehow Makes His Comments on Harris’s Race Even Worse
Donald Trump tried to cast more doubt on Kamala Harris’s ethnicity during the presidential debate.
July 31, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Watch: Trump Questions Kamala’s Blackness as Stunned Crowd Boos Him
Donald Trump made the wild claim during an interview with the National Association of Black Journalists.
January 28, 2022
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Siddhartha Deb
The Smallness of Hanya Yanagihara’s Maximalist Novel
“To Paradise” shows little interest in the big questions it asks.
August 21, 2020
J.C. Pan
The Conservative Misdirection of the Affirmative Action Debate
The battle over Ivy League admissions focuses on a handful of elite schools and ignores deeper educational inequalities exacerbated by Covid-19.
May 11, 2020
J.C. Pan
A Leftist Future for Asian American Politics
Asian American identity remains deeply fragmented, but politics—and the movement for economic justice—is a growing unifier.
April 10, 2019
Magazine
Rumaan Alam
Susan Choi’s Missing Persons
Her novels have always championed the overlooked point of view. But "Trust Exercise" takes on a riskier experiment.
September 24, 2018
Clio Chang
Whose Side Are Asian-Americans On?
A proposal to integrate New York City’s top public high schools would be a boon to black and Latinx students—and a disaster for Asians.
February 16, 2018
Irene Hsu
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Sharon Zhang
Mirai Nagasu and Chloe Kim Are Not Your Immigrant Fantasy
How the Asian American athletes making history at the Olympics are being co-opted by pro-immigration voices
January 11, 2018
Matt Schiavenza
Silicon Valley’s Forgotten Minority
Why Asians remain absent from the tech industry’s highest echelons
April 17, 2017
Clio Chang
A response to Andrew Sullivan.
April 11, 2017
Clio Chang
Why It Matters That the United Dragging Victim Is Asian
The outrage over the incident has largely left out discussion of the man's race. And that's a problem.
October 6, 2016
Sukjong Hong
Jesse Waters issued a classic non-apology for his offensive Chinatown episode.
October 5, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Republicans don’t care about Asian people.
October 5, 2016
Sukjong Hong
How Could Anyone Think Mail-Order Brides Are Funny?
NBC’s aborted comedy about a purchased Filipina bride exposes the depths of the entertainment industry’s cultural blindness.
September 26, 2016
Sukjong Hong
Asian-American voters really don’t like Donald Trump. Does Trump care?
March 16, 2016
Elaine Teng
Why Is It Still Okay to Make Fun of Asians?
It shouldn't be. Here's how to defeat Hollywood's racist stereotypes.
March 15, 2016
Elaine Teng
Ang Lee, Sandra Oh, and George Takei protest the Oscars’ Asian jokes.
December 2, 2014
Elaine Teng
Finally a Movie That Captures What It's Like to Be Asian American
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