Karen Yuan
The Meme-ification of Asianness
In the Facebook group Subtle Asian Traits, more than a million young people are articulating what it means to be Asian.
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Damian Dovarganes/ AP Where Should Students Learn How to Think?
In school or outside of school? The Masthead debates the best setting for students to learn critical thinking.
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Stringer/ Reuters The Impossibility of the Chinese First Lady
Peng Liyuan is influential because of, not despite, the Chinese government’s misogyny.
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Nicole Xu The Book Club Is Back!
Introducing The Masthead’s new monthly book club.
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Karen Yuan / The Atlantic The Fallacy of the American Memoir
Kiese Laymon talks about his new best seller, Heavy.
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Yuri Cortez / Getty A Crime Against Culture
In an industry built on trust, a bookseller and a librarian are accused of stealing hundreds of rare books from their colleagues.
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Illustration: Justin Metz / Concept: Delcan & Co. The Fight for Love and Pleasure
Why are young Americans having a hard time getting down?
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Justin Lambert / Getty How Teens Turned Instagram Into a Dating App
Dating culture is thriving on Instagram and other platforms popular with youth.
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Mendelsund / Munday Behind the Scenes with Kate Julian
The author of the “Sex Recession” sits down with The Masthead.
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Fuse / Getty Images A Script for Productive Thanksgiving Conversations
Tips on tackling tough topics while tripped up on tryptophan
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Jacqueline Roggenbrodt / AP Which Came First, the Divisions or the Tribes?
Researchers provide a crash course in the study of tribalism. Plus, a reading list of the best writing on the subject.
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Ted Warren / AP Persuading a Carbon-Tax Skeptic
An economist and policy experts respond to a natural-gas worker’s worries that the fight against climate change will hurt Americans like him.
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J Pat Carter / AP The Disquiet of Florida
Readers grapple with Lauren Groff’s character “consumed with anxiety about the state of the world.”
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Nabil Shash How Instagram Saved Poetry
Social media is turning an art form into an industry.
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Hulton Archive / Getty Images Reading While Angry
Rebecca Traister’s Good and Mad is our October book-club pick; C. J. Chivers’ “War Without End” is the winner of our search for the next must-read piece of journalism.
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Chris Wattie / Reuters Will the Kavanaugh Hearings Propel Women to Congress?
“When women’s political fortunes are dependent on the political environment … ”
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Reed Saxon / Reuters Why Are American Colleges So Ridiculously Expensive?
The Masthead investigates.
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Mohamad Torokman / Reuters A Study Guide to the Rise of Authoritarianism
The historian Timothy Snyder’s new book has lessons for resisting the creep of tyranny.
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Jason Lee / Reuters The Murders That Sparked China’s Rideshare Boycott
In the past two years, four women have been killed by drivers for the popular Chinese ride-hailing app Didi. Users have had enough.
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Stringer / Reuters A Moral Case for Giving People Money
“Poverty is a human-rights issue.”
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Jim Wells / AP The Press vs. the President
A brief history of the struggles between journalists and the presidents they cover
