Michelle Chen is a contributing writer at the Nation and contributing editor at In These Times and Dissent magazines.
March 2022
‘She could have been your mother’: anti-Asian racism a year after Atlanta spa shootings
The spa shootings in Georgia killed six Asian women but as a community tries to heal, hate incidents are on the rise
February 2019
Antiracism and America
Activist and ex-prisoner Eddy Zheng: 'How do we humanize each other?'
The youth organizer, who spent two decades in California’s San Quentin prison, credits a grassroots education with saving his life
June 2018
The upside
Can millennials save unions in America?
The US Supreme Court has just stripped back the power of organised labour still further, but millennials don’t care. In an era of inequality and frustration they are joining unions in unprecedented numbers
July 2017
Why Trump's travel ban hits women the hardest
Michelle Chen
On top of alienating an entire religious community, Trump’s ban on future refugee admissions deepens the endemic gender injustice of warfare
June 2017
Inequality and opportunity in America
Women owe two-thirds of student loan debt. This points to a slow-burning crisis
Michelle Chen
Women are borrowing more to ‘get ahead’ on the career ladder, only to find their futures constrained by the shackles of debt
November 2014
Want to feed the homeless? Be prepared to pay the government for the privilege
Michelle Chen
Michelle Chen: Cities are enacting politics to keep homeless people out of sight and uphold a social order riven by racial and economic inequality
August 2014
Even bright young immigrants don't buy Obama's executive action fail
Michelle Chen
Michelle Chen: Whatever unilateral intervention the president may take, it isn’t nearly enough to offset the systematic betrayal of immigrant communities
July 2014
Obama's new plan for detained migrant children militarizes immigration policy
Michelle Chen
Michelle Chen: Mass deportation will never address the underlying human rights crisis unfolding south of the US-Mexico border
June 2014
Starbucks baristudents should beware the green mermaid bearing gifts
Michelle Chen
If colleges didn't waste your tuition, we wouldn't need new student loan reform
Michelle Chen
November 2013
Chinatown: the next front in the gentrification war
Michelle Chen
Michelle Chen: Chinatowns across the US are being replaced by 'development'. For those fighting back, it's about civil rights not just culture
