articles & other
to read
Income Segregation and Intergenerational Mobility Evidence from U.S. Highways by Laura Zhang (Stanford Digital Repository, 2018)
Social Determinants of Health: Screening in the Clinical Setting by Aman Narayan, Jean Raphael, Tiffany Rattler, and Claire Bocchini (Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, 2018)
The 100 Best TV Episodes of the Century (The Ringer)
Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination by Robin Kelly
Psych 101: Psychology Facts, Basics, Statistics, Tests, and More! by Paul Kleinman
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What May Have Been: Retroism, Nostalgia, and Futurelessness by Aaron Thorpe (space+light)
These Will Be the 25 Biggest Dining Trends in 2022, According to Chefs by Regan Stephens (Food & Wine)
How Will Americans Eat in 2022? The Food Forecasters Speak. by Kim Severson (The New York Times)
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August
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May
The Bay Area’s Taiwanese Food Scene Comes Into Its Own by Luke Tsai (KQED)
the superpower of naming by Spencer Chang (Substack)
I Know What You Think of Me by Tim Kreider (The New York Times)
April
Keeping Love Close by Celeste Ng (The New York Times)
March
We Need to Put a Name to This Violence by Jay Caspian Kang (The New York Times)
‘Nobody came, nobody helped’: Fears of anti-Asian violence rattle the community by Marian Liu and Rachel Hatzipanagos (The Washington Post)
January
These Will Be the 21 Biggest Food Trends of 2021, According to Chefs by Regan Stephens (Food & Wine)
How Will We Eat in 2021? 11 Predictions to Chew On by Kim Severson (The New York Times)
2020
December
To be a woman and a human by Ann He (Medium)
Would you give up your identity? by Julianne Wey (Medium)
On Dr. Manhattan and Christian Theism by Julianne Wey (Medium)
Miss Ollie’s Will Transform Into a Nonprofit Focused on Providing a Platform for Black Creators by Luke Tsai (Eater SF)
Why it’s time to retire the term ‘Asian Pacific Islander’ by Naomi Ishisaka (The Seattle Times)
November
A collision in Oakland: Move to defund police meets homicide spike by Rachel Swan (San Francisco Chronicle)
October
The Way the Cookie Crumbles by Edmund Levin (Slate)
September
Has Self-Awareness Gone Too Far in Fiction? by Katy Waldman (The New Yorker)
The live-action ‘Mulan’ is not the first retelling of the legend. Or the second. Or the sixth. by Martin Tsai (The Washington Post)
Malcolm and Martin by James Baldwin (Esquire)
August
The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates (The Atlantic)
Why the Only Ohlone Restaurant in the World Is Staying Closed During the Coronavirus Crisis by Luke Tsai (Eater)
When Michael Crichton Reigned over Pop Culture, from ER to Jurassic Park by Sam Kashner (Vanity Fair)
Why Black progressive women feel torn about Kamala Harris by Derecka Purnell (The Guardian)
‘Top Cop’ Kamala Harris’s Record of Policing the Police by Danny Hakim, Stephanie Saul, and Richard A. Opel Jr. (New York Times)
When Did Recipe Writing Get So...Whitewashed? by Priya Krishna (Bon Appetit)
Thousands of Texans are getting rapid-result COVID tests. The state isn’t counting them. by Matt Dempsey , Stephanie Lamm and Jordan Rubio (Houston Chronicle)
A Harlem Restaurant That’s Withstood Gentrification, a Pandemic and Time by Kayla Stewart (The New York Times)
La Caridad 78, a Beloved Chinese-Cuban Restaurant, Closes by Florence Fabricant (The New York Times)
What’s lurking beneath Lake Merritt? More than you think by Ally Markovich (Oaklandside)
Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation by John Lewis (The New York Times)
July
UC Berkeley has a poor reputation among Black students. It’s trying to change that by Teresa Watanabe (Los Angeles Times)
The Fruit of Thao Nguyen’s Labors by John Taylor (Interview)
A Former Barbecue Pitmaster Pivots to Tortillas, and They Are Glorious by José R. Ralat (Texas Monthly)
The Language of Generalization by Michael Henry Tessler and Noah D. Goodman (ArXiv, 2018)
We're Re-examining How We Portray Cops Onscreen. Now It's Time to Talk About Superheroes by Eliana Dockterman (Time)
June
The Leftovers is TV’s best exploration of depression by Emily VanDerWerff (Vox)
Remembering Rice: How Should the University Acknowledge and Represent its Founder’s Past? by Andrew Maust
Black at Rice: ‘It feels like we’re mourning all the time.’ (The Thresher)
A Rediscovered Archive from California in the Seventies by Hua Hsu (The New Yorker)
Michael Jang’s American Dream by Will Matsuda (Aperture)
Midcentury San Francisco as Seen by Its Most Famous Photographer by Jordan G. Teicher (Slate)
PG&E Pleads Guilty to 84 Counts of Manslaughter in Camp Fire Case by Ivan Penn and Peter Eavis (The New York Times)
Minneapolis city council members announce intent to disband the police department, invest in proven community-led public safety by Jay Willis (The Appeal)
Oakland Chinatown Food Businesses Stand in Solidarity With Protesters by Luke Tsai (Eater SF)
The White Man in That Photo by Riccardo Gazzaniga (Films for Action)
Police Target Journalists as Trump Blames ‘Lamestream Media’ for Protests by Marc Tracy and Rachel Abrams (The New York Times)
Check Your Privilege: Interrogating Reactions to the Protests by Julianne Wey (Medium)
The wonderful, touching impact of ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ by Julianne Wey (Medium)
'I Couldn't Just Sit and Watch.' Photographing New York City's George Floyd Protests by Malike Sidibe (Time)
How Western media would cover Minneapolis if it happened in another country by Karen Attiah (The Washington Post)
May
One Bar. Twelve Weeks. Seventeen Lives in Lockdown. by Jack Nicas (The New York Times)
As a police chief, I see Minneapolis as a crucial test of our profession. Here’s how we can avoid failing. by Art Acevedo (The Washington Post)
20+ Allyship Actions for Asians to Show Up for the Black Community Right Now by Michelle Kim (Medium)
The Man Who Thought Too Fast by Anthony Gottlieb (The New Yorker)
An Oral History of the Day Everything Changed by Garrett M. Graff (Wired)
April
A narrative review of the construct of hedonic hunger and its measurement by the Power of Food Scale by H. M. Espel‐Huynh, A. F. Muratore, and M. R. Lowe (Obes Sci Pract 2018; 4(3):238-49.)
People Are Clamoring to Buy Old Insulin Pumps by Sarah Zhang (The Atlantic)
March
The U.S. Tried to Build a New Fleet of Ventilators. The Mission Failed. by By Nicholas Kulish, Sarah Kliff and Jessica Silver-Greenberg (The New York Times)
Inside the Story of How H-E-B Planned for the Pandemic by Dan Solomon and Paula Forbes (Texas Monthly)
My City’s Heart Is Its Restaurants. What Now? by Bryan Washington (The New Yorker)
The Coronavirus Called America’s Bluff by Anne Applebaum (The Atlantic)
How Pandemics Change History by Isaac Chotiner (The New Yorker)
The Korean Clusters by Marco Hernandez, Simon Scarr and Manas Sharma (Reuters)
February
After Flint Water Crisis, Number Of Students With Special Education Needs Spikes by Tonya Mosley (WBUR)
Hit Charade by Nathaniel Rich (The Atlantic)
How Andrew Yang Quieted the Asian American Right by Noah Y. Kim (The Atlantic)
A Couples Therapist Analyzes the Marriage in Marriage Story by Ashley Fetters (The Atlantic)
January
The Incredibly Happy Life of Larry David, TV's Favorite Grouch by Brett Martin (GQ)
The Roads Must Roll by Robert Heinlein
Chinatowns Across The Country Face Off With Gentrification by Melissa Hung (NPR)
‘They don’t know us’: At Sama Uyghur Cuisine, three immigrants recreate their native foods by Melissa Hung (San Francisco Chronicle)
How Silicon Valley’s Favorite Chinese-American Restaurant Was Born by Melissa Hung (Eater)
A Dinner Party on the Streets of Oakland for 500 People by Melissa Hung (Pacific Standard)
To Swim Is to Endure: On Living with Chronic Pain by Melissa Hung (Catapult)
Filet-O-Comfort by Melissa Hung (Shondaland)
Towards Chinatown by Melissa Hung (Longreads)
When authenticity means a heaping plate of Tex-Mex by Melissa Hung (San Francisco Chronicle)
The 30 Greatest Meals of 2019 by Ileana Martinez (Medium)
The S in ESG: Diversity in Clinical Trials by Julianne Wey (S&P Global)
2019
December
These Will Be the Biggest Food Trends of 2020, According to Chefs by Regan Stephens (Food & Wine)
What Will We Eat in 2020? Something Toasted, Something Blue by Kim Severson (The New York Times)
What Is the Impeachment Process? A Step-by-Step Guide by Weiyi Cai (The New York Times)
The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu
October
In their own words: survivors’ stories of sexual assault at Rice by Anna Ta and Christina Tan (The Rice Thresher)
September
A Beating Heart, Even After Death by Haider Warraich (The New York Times)
AUGUST
Trump’s Next Target: Legal Immigrants by Tung Nguyen and Sherry Hirota (The New York Times)
July
The dark side of Japan’s anime industry by Eric Margolis (Vox)
June
What I Learned About Racism as the Only Chinese Person at a 'Chinese' Festival by Marvin Xin Ku (Vice)
April
The Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence by Ezra Marcus and James D. Walsh (The Cut)
March
Texas lawmakers look to Uber, Lyft to transport Medicaid patients by Allie Morris and Austin Bureau (San Antonio Express-News)
Here’s how the nationwide college bribery plot worked, according to officials by Jaclyn Reiss (The Boston Globe)
Ed Schoenfeld's Chinese Food History of New York by Jacqueline Raposo (Serious Eats)
Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria by Jason Somers (The Atlantic)
February
Barack Obama Talks About Toxic Masculinity And ‘Being A Man’ by Sarah Ruiz-Grossman (The Huffington Post)
Pixar’s new short “Purl” takes on toxic workplace bro culture by KC Ifeanyi (Fast Company)
Why Ford Hired a Furniture Maker as CEO by Jerry Useem (The Atlantic)
A Grand Plan to Clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by Carolyn Kormann (The New Yorker)
Two McCourtys Are Better Than One by Jason McCourty (The Players’ Tribune)
“When History Sleeps”: A Beginning, from Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination by Robin D. G. Kelley
Access to Medical Devices in Low-Income Countries: Addressing Sustainability Challenges in Medical Device Donations by Bruce Compton, David M. Barash, Jennifer Farrington, Cynthia Hall, Dale Herzog, Vikas Meka, Ellen Rafferty, Katherine Taylor, and Asha Varghese (National Academy of Medicine)
January
Intellectual humility: the importance of knowing you might be wrong by Brian Resnick (Vox)
A Photographer’s Quest to Reverse China’s Historical Amnesia by Amy Qin (The New York Times)
My column’s name does a disservice to the immigrants whose food I celebrate. So I’m dropping it. by Tim Carman (The Washington Post)
2018
December
How ‘Subtle Asian Traits’ Became a Global Hit by Isabella Kwai (The New York Times)
The CRISPR Baby Scandal Gets Worse by the Day by Ed Yong (The Atlantic)
November
China Halts Work by Scientist Who Says He Edited Babies’ Genes by Sui-Lee Wei (The New York Times)
Chinese Researcher Claims First Gene-Edited Babies by The Associated Press (The New York Times)
Searching for a Cultural Home: Asian American Youth in the EDM Festival Scene by Judy Soojin Park (Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture (2015) 7(1): 15 - 34)
Parents swear this NYC school is a utopia by Hailey Eber (New York Post)
October
The Limits of Empathy by Adam Waytz (Harvard Business Review)
Storytelling That Moves People by Brownyn Fryer (Harvard Business School)
September
READ: Christine Blasey Ford's Opening Statement For Senate Hearing by NPR Staff (NPR)
Travel Is No Cure for the Mind by More to That (Medium)
Teamwork on the Fly by Amy C. Edmondson (Harvard Business Review)
What so many men are missing about #MeToo by David Roberts (Vox)
Many Ways to Be a Girl, but One Way to Be a Boy: The New Gender Rules by Claire Cain Miller (The New York Times)
How Managers Become Leaders by Michael D. Watkins (Harvard Business Review)
Pioneers, Drivers, Integrators, and Guardians by Suzanne M. Johnson Vickberg and Kim Christfort (Harvard Business Review)
I’ve Fallen Out of Love With Sriracha by David Farley (TASTE)
Here comes Noname by Rawiya Kameir (The Fader)
Dear white people [of Hollywood]: You have to like ‘Crazy Rich Asians.’ by Julianne Wey (Medium)
The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy by Matthew Stewart (The Atlantic)
Dramatic then and now photos show how Hurricane Harvey devastated Houston by Maggie Gordon, Jasmine Goldband, and Rachael Gleason (Houston Chronicle)
The Inside Story of San Francisco’s $137.5 Million Jimmy Garoppolo Gamble by Robert Mays (The Ringer)
Frank Gore Is the Hall of Fame Running Back No One Saw Coming by Benjamin Hoffman (The New York Times)
August
Asian-Americans Need More Movies, Even Mediocre Ones by Viet Thanh Nguyen (The New York Times)
Houston Is the New Capital Of Southern Cool by Brett Martin (GQ)
If you’re wondering why you’ve lost friends in adulthood, this is probably why by Jackie Luo (Vox)
MoviePass Was Doomed to Fail — But We Also Need to Learn From Its Success by Chris O'Falt (IndieWire)
July
The Other Tech Bubble by Erin Griffith (Wired)
Pictures Reveal the Isolated Lives of Japan’s Social Recluses by Laurence Butet-Roch and Maika Elan (National Geographic)
Seagulls can be annoying. But so can we. by Elaine Shen (Houston Chronicle)
Solving homelessness — obvious if not easy by Sam Davis (Berkeley Blog)
In India, Summer Heat Could Soon Be Unbearable. Literally. by Somini Sengupta (The New York Times)
Welcome to PATH, transformed by Carla Costa Sandine (PATH)
San Francisco’s crisis looks like New York’s future by Karol Markowicz (New York Post)
The Most Successful Ethnic Group in the U.S. May Surprise You by Molly Fosco (OZY)
U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials by Andrew Jacobs (The New York Times)
We chat with the owner of Beijing’s most successful gay club by Jack Smith (Time Out Beijing)
Today’s Masculinity Is Stifling by Sarah Rich (The Atlantic)
De Blasio’s Plan for NYC Schools Isn’t Anti-Asian. It’s Anti-Racist. by Minh-Ha T. Pham (The New York Times)
The Perils Of Pushing Kids Too Hard, And How Parents Can Learn To Back Off by Allison Aubrey and Jane Greenhalgh (NPR)
Learning, Too Late, from Anthony Bourdain by Jackie Luo (Medium)
June
Why Music Videos Are Still So Important: Views from inside the industry by Sarah Boardman (Medium)
Asians are being used to make the case against affirmative action. Again. by Alvin Chang (Vox)
Harvard Is Wrong That Asians Have Terrible Personalities by Wesley Yang (The New York Times)
G.E. to Spin Off Health Care Division as Part of Major Reshaping by Steve Lohr and Michael J. de la Merced (The New York Times)
What Western Companies Need to Know About Partnering with Startups in India and China by Shameen Prashantham (Harvard Business Review)
Trump Retreats on Separating Families, but Thousands May Remain Apart by Michael D. Shear, Abby Goodnough, and Maggie Haberman (The New York Times)
Chinese cuisine evolves in the United States as tastes change by Hezi Jiang (China Daily)
A Very Brief History of Chinese Food in America by Emelyn Rude (Time)
Kyrie Irving Doesn’t Know if the Earth Is Round or Flat. He Does Want to Discuss It. by Sopan Deb (The New York Times)
Anthony Bourdain Was the Best White Man by Mallika Rao (Vulture)
To honor Anthony Bourdain, go to Houston's Chinatown by Wei-Huan Chen (Houston Chronicle)
Anthony Bourdain's history with Houston by Jody Schmal and Greg Morago (Houston Chronicle)
Google Doodle honors Dr. Virginia Apgar, savior of countless babies by Steven Musil (CNET)
Curiosity and What Equality Really Means by Atul Gawande (The New York Times)
The Mother Earth Project: We Are Become the Future by Julianne Wey (Unpublished)
A Monster Within by Julianne Wey (Unpublished)
May
The Curious Case of Bryan Colangelo and the Secret Twitter Account by Ben Detrick (The Ringer)
45 Stories of Sex and Consent on Campus by Modern Love and The New York Times Gender Initiative (The New York Times)
What It Means When Childish Gambino Says ‘This Is America’ by Frank Guan (Medium)
We Pay Low Prices For Chinese Food Because Of Racial Biases About ‘Cheap’ Labor by Jessica Prois (The Huffington Post)
April
The Fable of the Dragon Tyrant by Nick Bostrom (Journal of Medical Ethics (2005) Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 273-277)
People Who Have “Too Many Interests” Are More Likely To Be Successful According To Research by Michael Simmons (Medium)
Can an Interaction Designer Survive Without a Smartphone? by Jane Ha (IDEO)
How Many People Haven’t Seen ‘Titanic’? by Walt Hickey (FiveThirtyEight)
How One Houston Suburb Ended Up in a Reservoir by Tim Wallace, Derek Watkins, Haeyoun
Park, Anjali Singhvi, and Josh Williams (The New York Times)
Why a family fights over their ‘healthy and beautiful’ daughter, legally dead since 2013 by Yanan Wang (The Washington Post)
Asian-American Cuisine’s Rise, and Triumph by Ligaya Mishan (The New York Times)
Counter Revolution by Melissa Hung (Southwest The Magazine)
March
How I quit my job, booked a one-way flight to SF, and hacked the job search by Steven Dao (LinkedIn)
I Got a Story to Tell by Steve Francis (The Players' Tribune)
The Art of Dying Well by Lydia Dugdale
I posted a huge note for the thief who stole my bike. Then my doorbell rang. by Amanda Needham (The Washington Post)
What's the Difference Between a Frat and a Gang? by Ibram X. Kendi (The Atlantic)
Pluralism & and the "Good" Death by Stephen Latham
February
My Marriage Didn't End When I Became a Widow by Lucy Kalanithi (The New York Times)
Grief and Recovery by Ryan and Erica Preston-Roedder
Patton Oswalt: 'I'll Never Be at 100% Again' by Jason Zinoman (The New York Times)
Love and Death by Dan Moller
Mortal Immortals: Lucretius on Death and the Voice of Nature by Martha Nussbaum
The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality by Bernard Williams
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
13 Questions to Ask Before Getting Married by Eleanor Stanford (The New York Times)
How to Beat the Patriots by Von Miller (The Player's Tribune)
January
How Men Can Support Women Besides Not Harassing or Assaulting Them by Amber Wang (Medium)
Gender Nihilism: An Anti-Manifesto by Alyson Escalante
My Confession by Leo Tolstoy
The Meaning of Life by Richard Taylor
Death by Thomas Nagel
Letter to Menoeceus by Epicurus
Tapping a Maple on a Cold Vermont Morning by Kenneth Cosgrove (The Atlantic)
2017
October
How to Have a Better Relationship by Tara Parker-Pope (The New York Times)
Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person by Alain de Botton (The New York Times)
In Urban China, Cash Is Rapidly Becoming Obsolete by Paul Mozur (The New York Times)
September
Social Factors Affecting Treatment of Cervical Cancer: Ethical Issues and Policy Considerations by Shannon N. Westin et al. (Obstet Gynecol 2008; 111(3):747-51.)
Turning the Tide Against Cholera by Donald G. McNeil Jr. (The New York Times)
How Big Business Got Brazil Hooked on Junk Food by Andrew Jacobs and Matt Richtel (The New York Times)
Global Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health — So Near and Yet So Far by Zulfiqar A. Bhutta and Robert E. Black (N Eng J Med 2013; 369:2226-35)
Pennies from heaven (The Economist)
August
Does Climate Change Intensify Hurricane Harvey? by Robinson Meyer (The Atlantic)
Here's what Chinese takeout menus can teach us about immigration by Dolly Li (Medium/AJ+)
Slow Ideas by Atul Gawande (The New Yorker)