My Descent Into Mah-Jongg
The game seems to be everywhere, all at once.
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PoliticsMy Descent Into Mah-JonggThe game seems to be everywhere, all at once.By Ashley ParkerAlisa Gao / The AtlanticJune 15, 2026, 5 AM ET ShareSave When my mom found out I was planning to travel to Dallas to play in a Lunar New Year mah-jongg tournament, she texted a reasonable query: “Don’t they require some level of competence?”And yet, during the third week of February, I found myself first at a dazzling private home in Dallas, and then at a luxury hotel, sitting down with my more refined counterparts to play in a competition in the epicenter of the country’s American mah-jongg resurgence.First, a bit about how I got here.
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