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Election official Henry Tung displays a sheet of "I Voted" stickers in various languages at a polling station at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Monterey Park, Los Angeles County, on November 6, 2012 in California, as Americans flock to the polls nationwide to decide between President Barack Obama, his Rebuplican challenger Mitt Romney, and a wide range of other issues. Monterey Park is one of six cities in California's 49th Assembly District, the state's first legislative district where Asian-Americans make up the majority of the population. AFP PHOTO/Frederic J. BROWN (Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)

Why Asian Americans Don’t Vote: A Theoretical Perspective

I recently watched the new Jackie Chan movie called, The Foreigner, which is basically a Chinese Taken (highly recommended, by the way). But what stood out to me was the title. The only reason this ti…

Gun Violence and the American Mind

“Reform the mental health care system.” Time and time again, this has been the right-wing response to mass shootings. From three years ago, when 26 lives were lost at Sandy Hook Elementary…

Activists of youth group Nashi rally to mark the 55th birthday of Russia's President Vladimir Putin in downtown Moscow, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2007. The signs on t-shirts with stylized Putin's portrait read: "Our Choice!" Nashi is one of the Kremlin-backed youth movements that pays homage to Putin and seeks to promote Russia's resurrection as a superpower. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Hipsters, Murals, and Putin’s New Youth Movement

It’s easy to see why Russia’s ultranationalist youth groups have earned comparisons to the Hitler Youth. Masterminded in 2005 by Kremlin ideologist and later Deputy Prime Minister Vladislav Surkov, Na…