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Lunar new year dinner to avert constitutional crisis?
Preet Bharara knows what it’s like to deal with Donald Trump. The former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York–who made it to the cover of Time magazine for going after Wall Street…
State of the Union? Truthfully–chaotic, unless Trump says this
When Donald Trump gives his first actual State of the Union address, what the country really needs is a confessional, not fake news. We need the president to come clean. Did he attempt to fire Special…
Why did Donald Trump make DACA/Dreamers his political football?
Cheska Perez is a Filipina who was brought to the U.S. by her parents when she was just six years old. It’s the standard story. She didn’t have a choice. She didn’t know the U.S. government would shut…
“J” is for “Jawdrop”– Time for the censure of President Donald J. Trump
If his pussy grabbing rhetoric wasn’t enough to sink his candidacy in 2016, why do you think Trump’s talking about immigrants from Africa and Haiti as coming from “shithole” countries will phase him?…
Trump urges “Love Bill” for DACA, but a California federal judge offers real protection for Dreamers; and a 20/20 on Oprah
That strange immigration meeting at the White House on Tuesday looked like a scene from a political “Twilight Zone.” Was Trump really negotiating an immigration deal with a bipartisan group from…
Trump’s megalomania exposed in “Fire and Fury”
After I burned up my Kindle reading “Fire and Fury”–Michael Wolff’s fly-on-the-wall tale of the Trump White House–here’s the most positive and optimistic thing I can say: There is no reason an Asian…
A Bitcoin for your thoughts as Trump Year One ends and 2018 begins
I swear if I had a nickel for every time someone has mentioned bitcoin to me in the last month, I would be really, really rich. Not Trump rich. But who wants to be that? So on the last business day of…
Fake tax cuts in a taxing holiday season
Donald Trump, our president of tweets and low ratings, is capping off the year spearheading the drive to bribe–or, ahem, give you a Christmas gift–that’s more like a ticking time bomb. Or is that what…
When San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee invited me in from the rain
Off and on, throughout the years, I knew Ed Lee. His death at age 65 leaves me in shock. Roy Moore? Special election? Alabama? On this election day, if you’re an Asian American who follows politics,…
Flips all over the place–Flynn, Trump, Taxes, and DACA
When you heard the news that General Michael Flynn had flipped, I just wanted to assure you that those of us of Filipino heritage aren’t upset by the use of that phraseology at all. We’re ecstatic. At…
First Charlie Rose, then Matt Lauer; Who tells Trump, “You’re fired”?
Matt Lauer kept losing his hair, but he never lost his job–not until he lost his sense of judgment, self-control, and credibility. Too bad he’s not president of the free world. He’d still have his…
On workplace harassment, “Me Too,” and Apu
We’ve got some great Thanksgiving topics this year at our Asian American family table, but did anyone figure the first course would kick off with, “So anyone thankful they didn’t get harassed this…
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