Michael Luo

Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker . His first book, “ Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America ,” was published in April, 2025.

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History’s Judgment of Those Who Go Along

comment · December 22, 2025

Michael Luo on career prosecutors, military officials, and why those serving in the Administration need to consider the example of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during the Second World War.

When an American Town Massacred Its Chinese Immigrants

american chronicles · March 10, 2025

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. Michael Luo reports.