Matthew Shen Goodman

We’ve never been so old. There were 95,000 centenarians in 1990 and more than 450,000 in 2015, according to estimates from the United Nations. Global life expectancy doubled from 1920 to 2020; the pandemic saw a dip that was horrifying but comparatively minor in the scope of a ...

The first quarter of the twenty-first century fast approaches its end, and all is not well in human welfare. According to the UN secretary-general, some 360 million people worldwide are in need of humanitarian assistance. Beset by challenges of its own making (corruption, abuse, ...

TikTok chefs stir-frying and red-cooking in idyllic Sichuan countrysides, listicles of where to get not-your-nonna’s tagliatelle, YouTube channels featuring artery-busting barbecue smoked by men who seem, above all, engorged: What are we awash in today but endless food ...

It’s been twenty years since Las Vegas debuted “What happens here, stays here.” The slogan is a winking celebration of self-containment that has never quite been true. (Hence, perhaps, the marvelously redundant update three years ago: “What happens here, only happens ...

On “The National Interest,” issue no. 67.

On “The National Interest,” issue no. 67.

Jay Caspian Kang challenges the usual narratives about Asian Americans.

Andrew Yang’s Asian American nonpolitics