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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
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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.
January 11, 2018
Matt Schiavenza
Silicon Valley’s Forgotten Minority
Why Asians remain absent from the tech industry’s highest echelons
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.
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