Why Charlie Kirk's legacy matters and how it will keep threatening us Support my Writing with a Tip Charlie Kirk hasn't died. Perhaps he did in body, but not in ideology. This is not a fawning eulogy to him, but a practical assessment of what he
How education is becoming less equal, more censored and sold to tech companies for scraps Support my writing with a Tip Education in the United States has been segregated, unequal and censored long before Donald Trump decided to ever run for office. Any progress to making learning more inclusive, equitable
How Eric Adams' campaign games American racial politics Send me Potato Chip Money here Hongbao. Angpao. Lucky Money. The object goes by many names, but it's synonymous with money in the various cultures that use the thin, fancy envelopes. Occasions we like to use them include but
Support my Writing and Research with a Tip The State Department this week released a curtailed version if its annual human rights report, its first under Secretary Marco Rubio. For those who haven't followed the lore to this point, Rubio essentially built his entire career bona fides in
Support my Writing with a Tip The Trump administration loves censorship. They're constantly belligerent and combative against academic, media and nongovernmental institutions that challenge their power. They constantly twist information when it is not to their liking, and they use whatever means necessary so that the public cannot
Support my Writing with a Tip Stop me if you've heard this story before. Some community member that's been working at a beloved food establishment for decades is taken by ICE in a sweeping raid. People in their community– maybe an American spouse, a neighbor, or
Support my Writing with a Tip Elon Musk is uncool to a lot of nerds, and he's been angry about this fact for a very long time. This hasn't stopped his fascination with trying to be king of the hill in a subculture that he should
Conservatives want to deport Zohran Mamdani. It doesn't really matter that he has no criminal history. It doesn't really matter that he is a naturalized citizen with legal residency in the United States. Both those facts can be altered so that he's no longer
Support my Writing and Research with a Tip Donald Trump decided to launch missiles at Iran at seven o’clock on a late Saturday evening in June. I decided in the aftermath to do a quick scan of how mainstream D.C. policy spaces reacted to the decision. Some shared
Support my Writing with a Tip We have this structured and almost procedural cycle of protest violence in the United States a lot. It goes like this: 1. Grievances bubble up en masse, and people then organize en masse as per their constitutional right. 2. Pundits, academics and journalists fixate
Like my Writing? Support the Newsletter with a Donation or Tip We've heard the term "security theater" thrown around here and there. Mostly, it refers to the body scanners at the airport and check-in process that makes people take their shoes off unless they shell out
Like what I do? Support me with a Tip here Whenever I watch movies over my streaming app that is riddled with video ads every forty minutes, I take note of the adjustments made to images and copywriting. Car manufacturers ranging from domestic automakers like Jeep and Hyundai either emphasize
Back in the days of 2024 when Donald Trump was running for office and Elon was running Twitter into the ground, the question of Elon's interests in China came up as a potential conflict of interest and security issue among Democratic China hawks. Elon's Tesla factories
Like my Writing and Analysis? Support the Newsletter here The Taiwanese town of Jiufen, a hot-spring resort situated on what once was a mining village. In busy tourist seasons, people most often go to take photos, purchase snacks and relive scenes that resemble Studio Ghibli's Spirited Away. It&
People love a good protest story, and they love to feel good about protestors visibly showing courage against injustice, repression and authoritarianism. I do too. But there is a line between encouraging others to stand up and mythmaking about the actions of standing up. One is survival, and the other
Like what I do? Support the Newsletter with a Donation According to NBC news reporting on a new survey by the Asian American foundation, 1 in 4 respondents viewed Chinese Americans as a "threat to society and national security." In commenting on the results, the CEO of the
By the time this blog post is done and published (April 30th or May 1st, 2025), the United States will likely have started feeling the pinch of up to 145 % tariffs on Chinese imports, depending on volume and type of goods. Some people jokingly refer to this as punishment for
It is a matter of weeks, if not days, before new restrictions against American schools and libraries will be delivered by the Supreme Court. With a bench stacked deep with Trumpian appointees and stalwarts for expansive religious practices, legal analysts are expecting a ruling in favor of a coalition of
The question of children is a divisive one, and I don't expect it to be an issue that will ever be not divisive for the foreseeable future. We've seen the childfree movement weirdos that refer to them as "crotch droppings" for crying on a
Americans demand instant gratification from food, from internet speeds, from friend group texts, and often from their politics. The nature of how reporters keep their eyes glued to stock tickers and how politicians can draft up immigrant-blaming statements rewards this short attention span and feeds the need for rapidfire justification
At the time of this newsletter's drafting, several international scholars, students and academics sit in immigration detention after sudden, brutal arrests. The American state's rationale for their abrupt removal from their homes, careers and families are that these individuals aided the militant and political movement of
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