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Broadening What We Call Asian American Art

  • by ENN News Desk

In 2015 my Brooklyn apartment flooded and my landlord put me up temporarily in his girlfriend’s room. She was Poppy Liu, an aspiring actor from Minnesota—later a voice actor on the upcoming animated Netflix show DANG!...

Rethinking Asian American Art

  • by ENN News Desk

A few years ago my Brooklyn apartment flooded and I ended up staying temporarily in the room of an aspiring actress I barely knew. Her name was Poppy Liu. She later landed a lead role on a new animated show about Asian...

Why Chinese Students Are Staying Home

  • by ENN News Desk

The most telling statistic on American campuses this year is the one that isn’t there: a large group of international students who used to arrive but no longer do.

Why economics won't cure America's mass resentment

  • by ENN News Desk

Americans are visibly unhappy—not only about the country's direction but increasingly about their own lives. Measures of national mood, life satisfaction, and subjective happiness have trended down; suicide rates have...

Veteran CBS Cameraman Derek Williams Dies at 79

  • by ENN News Desk

Derek Williams, a longtime CBS News cameraman who spent four decades documenting some of Asia’s most consequential events, died on July 22, 2026. He was 79. His family said he had been living with Parkinson’s disease...

Muskism: A Ford-like Remake of Society — More Dangerous

  • by ENN News Desk

Elon Musk is an outsize figure: once briefly the world’s first trillionaire and now a billionaire again, he has founded and steered several high-profile technology companies that have reshaped industry and public life....

Wasian and proud — unity or a mirror of whiteness?

  • by ENN News Desk

A new shorthand — “Wasian,” a blend of white and Asian — has entered everyday conversation. The label has been applied to a visible wave of young mixed-heritage public figures: athletes and skaters, pop stars, actors...

Senate Blocks Extension of Warrantless Spying

  • by ENN News Desk

A Republican-led effort to extend warrantless surveillance authorities failed to advance in the US Senate in the early hours of Friday, a defeat that privacy advocates hailed as a win for civil liberties. Seven GOP...