Did your favorite team(s) lose this weekend? Don’t go around moping like you’re preparing for a dismal Nov. 8.
There’s still hope. Races are close everywhere. Everything is winnable. Everyone just has to vote.
Early voting has already begun, by mail and in person. Vote early and once. Just vote.
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If Donald Trump were watching last night’s “Celebrity Jeopardy,” he would have seen this answer seeking a question: “October is the history month for this Asian-American ethnic group that includes Olivia Rodrigo and Jo Koy.”
First, we must call “sic” on the hyphenated “Asian American,” with apologi...
Last week’s column showed how Filipinos in America provided the basis for the racist Dred Scott decision (1857), where a Black slave was prevented from suing for his freedom. Chief Justice Roger Taney based it on an opinion he wrote in 1840 that since only White Christians could participate in socie...
October 2022 marks the coincidence of the new Supreme Court session, the start of Filipino American History Month, and the opening of a new satirical history of race in America by the esteemed African American writer Ishmael Reed.
All of them are connected. Read on.
First, the Supreme Court. No ma...
Hurricane Ian has exposed Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for the small, mean political animal that he is.
In fact, he could learn something from someone who in the hurricane’s aftermath is doing more to reassure all Floridians and the rest of the country. That someone would be President Joe Biden.
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Jin Yut Lew is a 61-year-old in a coma requiring 24-hour care in Chicago.
He couldn’t watch anything on Sunday night. Not even Simu Liu.
Technically, Liu of “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” fame (you know, that movie where a despicable character named Emil gets his ass kicked in a cage ...
Since Queen Elizabeth II’s death, I took to criticizing the repressive colonial misdeeds of the British Empire to balance out the steady stream of adulation.
When you hear someone say queen, remember Kenya. Or Kowloon. Or Burma.
And it was in all things royal. The queen may have been nice to her c...
For the AAPI community, the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII by the U.S. and the subsequent redress payments is a major human rights milestone. There’s a similar story relevant to today’s confluence of historical events, Queen Elizabeth’s passing and the anniversary of 9/11.
But firs...
I’m overcome by the news. I reported on Queen Elizabeth II just once, when she visited San Francisco in 1983. Then as now, as the world mourns her death, I am gratefully reminded how in our American democracy there is no monarchy.
I respect the Queen, of course, but I am still thinking about how in...
As Asian Americans, we are always tied to our homeland politics in some personal way. China, Taiwan, India, the Philippines, Myanmar, Vietnam, Korea, Cambodia, you name it.
We are aware of the moments of the present day that may ultimately become history. The calendar marks days you never forget.
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I remember Sunday, August 21, 1983 well. It was the day Benigno Aquino, Jr., the man Filipinos called “Ninoy,” was gunned down at the Manila airport after flying home from exile in the U.S.
I was a television reporter on the NBC station in San Francisco. With around 250,000 Filipinos in the Bay Are...
The new Uncle Sam may be Liz Cheney. She’s not the “Karen” wagging her finger saying she’s wants to speak to the manager. She is pointing her finger at us because now she has a proposition.
But is Cheney going to change the spelling of her name to CH-AA-NEY– just to lure us Asian Americans? She’ll ...
We are now entering an era when the greatest threat to our democracy is one FPOTUS.
FPOTUS?
That was the description on the affidavit attached to that historic search warrant on the property of The Former President of the United States, a/k/a FPOTUS.
But why stop at one F when there’s a foultitud...
I’m not going to take the Fifth like Donald Trump did more than 400 times on Wednesday at his deposition with the New York Attorney General’s office.
It’s a civil case concerning the financial structure of the Trump organization. Which is a different case from the FBI raid of Mar-A-Lago for possibl...
“Asian American” is one big umbrella in our American cocktail, but what do we really know about each other and how we feel?
For example, Filipino Americans are beginning to break through on the big screen. Yes, Nico Santos was in “Crazy Rich Asians,” but now Jo Koy is out with his Steven Spielberg-...
You may recall the picture of the anonymous “Tank Man” who stood up alone to the columns of military might rolling into Tienanmen Square in 1989.
It reminded me of Pelosi this week in 2022, though she was no anonymous passerby, and certainly no “Tank Lady.”
Not when you’re the third highest ranki...
By now, anyone concerned about the rollback of social justice in America can name every single member of the U.S. Supreme Court. That’s how political the high court has become. For every issue, we know the “count.”
We know the death knell of the 6-3. We know exactly who’s on the six and who’s among...
When I think of Jan. 6, I think of Michael Fanone, the Metropolitan Police Department Officer who’s become somewhat famous for defending democracy. As he was brutally attacked at the Capitol, his plea for mercy was a simple one.
“I have kids,” he told the mob.
And he does. Three of his four kids a...
Asian Americans on to the next thing should really take a longer look at that picture of President Biden and Mohammed Bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.
I paid $6 bucks for gas this weekend. And I’m still not over the “fist bump for gas pumps” photo op quite yet.
Not if you have any Fil...
It’s amazing what happened when NASA pointed its James Webb Space Telescope into a patch of darkness. Suddenly we saw the whole truth—-stars and galaxies we never knew existed.
It was a look back at the speed of light, about 13 billion years.
I wish all of America could see more clearly right here...
