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The first I learned of the mass Trump support among Vietnamese Americans was only days before the presidential election. Despite being a second-generation Vietnamese American, I grew up in a…
Returned mail-in ballots in the July New York primary. Courtesy of The Intercept and the AP. “Laboratories of democracy” are a distinctive feature of the American system. The phrase traces…
Illustration: Courtesy of Zohar Lazar for New York Magazine “Where We Go One, We Go All.” The lurid slogan belongs to the notorious far-right conspiracy theory community called QAnon. The…
Hillary Clinton (left), Donald Trump (center), and Joe Biden (right.) Image courtesy of USAToday. With just over two weeks until the Presidential election, former Vice President Joe Biden leads President…
Arthur Porth was a man of conviction, and that was the problem. Porth was convinced that the great evil facing 1950s America was not Jim Crow, misogyny, or even communism;…
Poster for 2020’s Mulan (via IndieWire) In late 2018, China began to experience rising criticism from the international community for its internment of certain Muslim minorities in the region of…
It is undeniable that paid maternity leave has a multitude of positive health benefits for both the mother and child. Of the 195 countries recognized today, 187 have paid maternity leave and 90 have paid paternity leave.
Last week Turkey launched a large scale military assault against a Syrian militia largely comprised of Kurdish fighters. The attack comes only days after President Donald Trump announced the retreat of U.S. troops from northeast Syria, where U.S. backed-Kurdish forces were instrumental in the defeat of the Islamic State and the further containment of IS fighters. Some call the retreat and subsequent indifference to Turkey’s attack from the largely Kurdish region an outright betrayal of the Kurds.