Michael Luo

From the daily newsletter: how inflation fooled almost everybody; the anguish of looking at a Monet; and reading Los Angeles in Latin.

Treating political violence as a contagion could help safeguard the future of American democracy.

Readers spent the most time this year on articles involving fraudulent identities, Kanye West, the turbulent U.S. election and its aftermath, and other memorable topics.

Even Donald Trump’s recent assertion that he would use executive action to abolish birthright citizenship has a historical link to the Chinese American experience.

In 1885, white rioters murdered dozens of their Asian neighbors in Rock Springs, Wyoming. A hundred and forty years later, the story of the atrocity is still being unearthed.

From the daily newsletter: An atrocity is still being unearthed, a hundred and forty years later. Plus: the immigrants who will die in U.S. custody; and how London became a local-news desert.

Since the earliest days of the Republic, American citizenship has been contested, subject to the anti-democratic impulses of racism, suspicion, and paranoia.

A Cold War-era report is a reminder of how long suspicion has trailed people of Chinese descent in the U.S.

Donald Trump’s trade war, and his threats toward Chinese students, have endangered the close economic relationship between the two great powers.

The future of American democracy could depend on whether Christians see themselves as warriors or servants.