Minh-Ha T. Pham

Tomorrow’s Table takes its name from a question we heard our mothers ask every day: “Ngày mai mình ăn gì?” (“What should we eat tomorrow?”) This project takes up the belief embedded in this question that tomorrow is made through the practice and pleasure of cooking, eating, and being together.

TOMORROW’S TABLE documents the Vietnamese food scene in New York City…

How Zohran Mamdani Built a Campaign Around Food

Eating has simply been “the way that I understood myself as a New Yorker,” he said.

When he ran for his State Assembly seat during the early months of the pandemic in 2020, Mr. Mamdani turned his campaign office into a food pantry.

Trump offered to let detained Korean workers stay in US, but almost all heading home U.S. President Donald Trump offered to allow hundreds of South Korean workers arrested during an immigration raid to stay in the United States, but only one has opted to remain, South Korean officials said on Thursday.

paradigmatic.

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ICE Conducts Largest-Ever Raid at Georgia Hyundai Plant: 475 Arrested, Mostly Korean We get an update on the largest-ever single-site immigration raid in U.S. history that unfolded Thursday when federal agents arrested nearly 500 workers at a Hyundai facility in Georgia. Most workers ...

The largest ever single-site immigration raid in U.S. history. www.democracynow.org/2025/9/8/hyu...

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ICE enforcement affects Vietnamese, Cambodian communities in SoCal Southeast Asian immigrants are deported at 3-5 times the rate of other communities due to prior criminal convictions. In LA and Orange County, businesses are seeing 70% revenue drops as vendors stay h...

An analysis of federal data by SEARAC, a civil rights organization advocating on behalf of Cambodian, Vietnamese, and Laotian communities, showed that nationally Southeast Asians are 3 to 5 times more likely to be deported based on a prior criminal conviction than other immigrant communities.

Hope and solidarity won tonight, and will win again in November.

Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Mamdani Wins Stunning Upset in Democratic Primary as Cuomo Concedes Race The democratic socialist state Assemblymember from Queens is on track to be the Democratic nominee for mayor in a ranked-choice election.

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social !!!! 🥳🤩

Like so many elections around the country, today is about organized money vs. organized people.

I believe people will win.

Donald Trump ran for President promising to end wars, not start new ones. Today’s unconstitutional military action represents a new, dark chapter in his endless series of betrayals that now threaten to plunge the world deeper into chaos. In a city as global as ours, the impacts of war are felt deeply here at home. I am thinking of the New Yorkers with loved ones in harm’s way. While Donald Trump bears immediate responsibility for this illegal escalation, these actions are the result of a political establishment that would rather spend trillions of dollars on weapons than lift millions out of poverty, launch endless wars while silencing calls for peace, and fearmonger about outsiders while billionaires hollow out our democracy from within. For Americans middle aged and younger, this is all we have known. We cannot accept it any longer.

My statement on the Trump administration's illegal military actions and the wars that must end.

No Kings: protests in the eye of the storm “We don’t want an autocrat. We want democracy.”

The Verge sent reporters out to No Kings protests across the country: www.theverge.com/policy/68719...

These Are the US Art Schools Most Dependent on International Students The Savannah College of Art and Design, Pratt Institute, and School of Visual Arts have the largest populations of international students.

Int' students make up 50% of student body at School of the Visual Arts, 35% at Parsons, 30% at CalArts, and 29% at School at the Art Institute of Chicago and Pratt Institute. Int'l students (who are largely from Asia) are being exploited in so many ways by US schools and now are pawns. Truly awful.

'Indiscriminate, Unrestrained, Brutal': Former Israeli PM Calls Gaza Assault 'War Crimes' "What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination," former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wrote in an op-ed aimed at Israeli citizens.

'Indiscriminate, Unrestrained, Brutal': Former Israeli PM Calls Gaza Assault 'War Crimes'

Sharing an archive documenting Vietnamese chefs in NYC that I've been working on w/ an NYU colleague. It's been months in the making and we're just getting started. 😀Tomorrow's Table.

On Friday night, n+1—alongside many of our peer nonprofit arts organizations—received notice that our 2025 NEA grant has been terminated due to the Trump administration’s “shifting funding priorities.” We knew this might be coming, but receiving the official notice was still jarring, as was some of the messaging itself. It’s unclear to us whether we’ll still be able to recover the money we’ve been promised this year—a $12,500 grant meant to help us pay our authors, our editors, and to have the magazine printed and distributed to our readers. We’ve requested the funds we’ve already spent, and now we’re waiting to see if the money will come through. We’re trying to stay optimistic, but with the administration’s other announcement this week that the NEA might be shut down in its entirety, it’s hard to do so. I’m writing to ask for two things—first, for short-term, immediate assistance to help us replace these funds. You can make a donation through our website, or—if you’re in New York and free on June 10—you can buy a ticket to our annual benefit, the N Plus Ultra. Second, we ask for your ongoing support amid the challenges that we, and other small magazines, are already beginning to face. You can do that by subscribing, of course, convincing your friends to subscribe (or simply sending them a gift subscription), or by buying a bit of merch from our shop. And maybe most meaningfully, you can share the n+1 pieces you’re reading and stay engaged with (and be vocal in your support of) the independent media you care about most. We’ll need all the help we can get. With gratitude, Dani Oliver Development Director, n+1

Our NEA grant was canceled.

Here’s a letter from our development director about what’s happening.

The Americans Fled Vietnam 50 Years Ago. I Visited the Buildings They Left Behind. These structures, now surrounded by a modern metropolis, tell the story of the nation that has evolved in the decades since the war’s end.

“I’m not saying it’s a betrayal, but it’s not decent,” said Ms. Lien, referring to the tariffs. “It’s not a decent way to treat a place where you caused so many problems.”

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The Vietnam War Is Still Killing People, 50 Years Later Unexploded U.S. shells killed four people in February alone, after the Trump administration cut funding to demining efforts.

“The US unleashed an estimated 30 billion pounds of munitions in Southeast Asia. At least 3.8M Vietnamese died violent war deaths, an estimated 11.7M South Vietnamese were forced from their homes, and up to 4.8M were sprayed with toxic herbicides like Agent Orange." theintercept.com/2025/04/30/v...

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

Tariffs Are Going to Make Restaurants So Boring Soleil Ho predicts a return to steak and potatoes.

so glad I could do this story on tariffs and the de-diversification of American food for Best Food Blog, a worker-owned food site ✌🏼 www.bestfoodblog.net/tariffs-are-...

Asian grocery stores, a lifeline for immigrants, brace for steep new tariffs Asian grocery stores are a lifeline to the communities they serve. But store owners say the prospect of sweeping tariffs are threatening their ability to stock up on goods and keep prices affordable.

Asian grocery stores are a lifeline to the communities they serve. But store owners say the prospect of sweeping tariffs are threatening their ability to stock up on goods and keep prices affordable.

hand holding a little black and white zine that reads on the cover "What's going on with the June 24th NYC Mayoral Race?"

Inside of zine that reads "Rank these 5 candidates" and has quotes an photos of Zellnor Myrie, Jessica Ramos, Zohran Mamdani, Brad Lander and Adrienne Adams

The "DO NOT RANK?" spread from the zine. Lists reasons why not to rank Andrew Cuomo and has a picture of his face with a big dark X on it.

Hello fellow New York City dwellers! I made a mayoral primary zine letting you know who to rank on your ballot, important dates, why ranked choice voting is good, and who NOT to rank. I posted a free download so you can print and assemble your own here: drive.google.com/drive/u/1/fo...

*Of course* AI would play a leading role in the collapse of the global economy.

Donald Trump announces tariffs that could raise the price of almost everything you buy Tariffs rates range from 10 percent to nearly 50 percent.

very!! cool!! very!! normal!! www.theverge.com/news/642240/...

UPDATE: Georgetown University has issued a statement on Suri’s detention. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

A Columbia University Professor Speaks Out Against the Kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil On March 12, at a rally in front of the New York City courthouse where Mahmoud Khalil’s hearing took place, classicist and Columbia University associate professor Joseph Howley made the follo…

“We will not take lectures on antisemitism from segregationists and neo-nazis.” @illdottore.bsky.social, a Columbia University professor, speaks out against the kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil.

How to Remove AI From Your Google Search Results Google rebranded its Search Generative Experience as AI Overviews and while you can't turn it off completely, these tweaks can make it more palatable.

wish I knew this sooner...