Emil Guillermo
Emil Guillermo wrote for almost 15 years his "Amok" column for AsianWeek, which was the largest English language Asian American newsweekly in the nation. “Amok” was considered the most widely-read column on Asian American issues in the U.S.
His thoughtful and provocative social commentaries have appeared in print in the San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate.com, San Francisco Examiner, USA Today, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Honolulu Advertiser, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and in syndication throughout the country.
His early columns are compiled in a book “Amok: Essays from an Asian American Perspective,” which won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 2000.
Guillermo’s journalistic career began in television and radio broadcasting. At National Public Radio, he was the first Asian American male to anchor a regularly scheduled national news broadcast when he hosted “All Things Considered” from 1989-1991. During his watch, major news broke, including the violence in Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the end of dictatorships in Romania and Panama. From Washington, Guillermo hosted the shows that broke the news.
As a television journalist, his award-winning reports and commentaries have appeared on NBC, CNN, and PBS. He was a reporter in San Francisco, Dallas, and Washington, D.C.
After NPR, Guillermo became a press secretary and speechwriter for then Congressman Norman Mineta, the former cabinet member in the Bush and Clinton Administrations.
After his Hill experience, Guillermo returned to the media, hosting his own talk show in Washington, D.C. on WRC Radio. He returned to California where he hosted talk shows in San Francisco at KSFO/KGO, and in Sacramento at KSTE/KFBK.
Guillermo’s columns in the ethnic press inspired a roundtable discussion program that he created, hosted, executive produced, resulting in more than 100 original half-hour programs. “NCM-TV: New California Media” was seen on PBS stations in San Francisco, Sacramento and Los Angeles, and throughout the state on cable.
Guillermo also spent time as a newspaper reporter covering the poor and the minority communities of California’s Central Valley. His writing and reporting on California’s sterilization program on the poor and minorities won him statewide and national journalism awards.
In 2015, Guillermo received the prestigious Dr. Suzanne Ahn Award for Civil Rights and Social Justice from the Asian American Journalists Association. The award, named after the late Korean American physician from Texas, recognizes excellence in the coverage of civil rights and social justice issues in the Asian American and Pacific Islander community.
Guillermo, a native San Franciscan, went to Lowell High School, and graduated from Harvard College, where he was an Ivy Orator and class humorist, a distinction shared by fellow Lampoon members like James Downey (Saturday Night Live) and Conan O’Brien.
Find out what he’s up to at www.amok.com.
Emil Guillermo writing
2024
- Emil Guillermo: The shattered mirror of mainstream journalism, Cesar Chavez Day, plus more "Emil Amok" BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The Trump trial becomes a time machine with Stormy Daniels' testimony BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: #StopTheHate update, ethnic collaboration, and winning an Andy Wong award BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Judge Florence Pan’s questioning makes Americans stop to think how Trump could kill democracy BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Biden, Dems nearing "inflection point"? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The Everyman Moment for the Man from Mankato BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Nikki Haley's public service? Baiting Donald Trump. BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The Emmys, Anna Sawai, and John Leguizamo; plus, a farewell to Ted Fang BLOG
- Joe Biden, Jo Koy, and the “Beef-y” Golden Globes BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Banging my gong on the true Philippine Independence Day BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Beyond racism, the new enemy–ageism BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Kamala's historic Democratic convention starts with an emotional good night for Joe Biden BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Harris' diversity coalition is the anti-MAGA mega force BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The TikTok ban and the dissing of Ke Huy Quan BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Two Trumps diverged at RNC, as luck runs out with the acceptance speech BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: My pre-debate run-up in Texas, Liz Cheney, and a bingo card BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Breaking news–I love breaking, and other final Olympic thoughts BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: DNC Day 2–The Obamas see Kamala Harris as America's post-Trump antidote BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The lies on dogs, cats, and Springfield, Ohio–maybe home of the best white people egg rolls in the Midwest BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Biden's torch passed, Kamala's Duende Express, and the grassroots coalition of the New America BLOG
- Emil Guillerno: E. Jean Carroll's victory is America's victory, and ours too BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: My Kamala name empathy, lies, and the politics of mispronunciation BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Rule of law in the era of CFDT34 BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: This China alarm comes with a disclaimer, but does it matter? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Before AANHPI Month ends, a former president with a racist legal strategy becomes a convicted felon BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: AANHPI Heritage Month? May is the month for all of us, every last Asian in America. BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: In debate, Harris exposes Trump's inadequacy to be president again BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Ronald Ebens, Vincent Chin, and conquering the enduring hate against Asian Americans BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Our great story, Harris' great speech BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: SCOTUS gives American democracy a demi-king BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: WDAAAT? I've tried to tell you. BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Mad at Biden over immigration? Andy Kim isn't. BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: For his birthday, we see the world like Corky Lee BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Post-debate, who needs to make the tougher choice–voters or Joe Biden? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: "Saturday Night Live" sanitizes Shane Gillis and all is not forgiven. BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Why we both love and hate the Oscars BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: In 2024, a convict is in a presidential debate, while Oakland's Mayor Sheng Thao fights to survive BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: In this election, the deciding issue is still race BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: After the GOP insult at NABJ, Kamala Harris plays her race card–Gov. Tim Walz, the anti-Trump BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump sets identity politics afire in false remarks about Harris' race BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: An Asian American student protester explains why she disobeyed and got arrested BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Robert Hur, model minority special prosecutor or waste of time? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Democracy in Iowa, MLK Day, Emmys–on the same day BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Unity? AAPIs all but invisible as Vance emerges after three days of Trump on mute BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On Biden, AAPI voters, and Shohei Ohtani BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: For Harvard, Claudine Gay was not the DEI hill to die on, but it should have been BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: My father's story before Father's Day BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The last 50 and the next 50 at AALDEF BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The dovetail of Juneteenth and Vincent Chin BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: How to think about Juneteenth 2024 BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Sen. Cotton's shameful racist congressional interrogation BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Biden shows he's ready for the fight BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Are we going to miss our chance at unity in U.S. politics? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Kamala's gun and the California law that makes her a badass BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Who decides appropriate penance for comedian Shane Gillis? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: In New Hampshire, Nikki Haley is the racism denier BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The state of our union after a less than Super Tuesday BLOG
- Simu Liu to be honored at AALDEF's 50th, and the real goal of AANHPI Heritage Month BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: My 100-year-old mentor helps me understand aging and the Presidential question BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Harvard's post-affirmative action numbers show Asian Americans were duped as "the perfect victims." BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The Three E's in New York–An earthquake, the eclipse, and Emil Amok's entertaining history lesson BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: I want to be a Trump juror! BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Being Asian American in 2024; Plus, my O.J. memory BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: April Fool? Post-affirmative action admissions numbers at Harvard show post-SCOTUS diversity is accidental at best BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Citizen Willie vs. Citizen Trump BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Democrats' resurrection at the home of the Rockettes, plus the trifecta of Easter, Cesar Chavez Day, and Trans Visibility Day BLOG
2023
- Emil Guillermo: Henry Kissinger; A.I. doomsday closer than thought; plus the humanity of the PEN Oakland Awards BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: 95th Oscars the Golden Spike for AAPI creatives, plus my foray into acting BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Biden has an answer for sexism and racism, but can he beat back America’s ageism? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: A gunman is one of us. Should we be surprised? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: DeSantis outdoes Trump with putrid alien land law in Florida; Pew puts it in context BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Dressing up like your favorite Filipino American historical character for Halloween? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: "Succession," Viet Dinh, and anti-Proud Boy judge Amit Mehta BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Of Biden, Xi, APEC, and root canals BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Historical Jan. 6 events at the Capitol bring up shameful anti-Asian American history BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump coins a new Asian slur–"Chinatown" BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: For Asian American Filipinos, the power player is Loida Nicolas Lewis BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: From "Bloody Sunday" to Ishmael Reed's "The Conductor" BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: From Maxine Hong Kingston to Sabrina Wu, our Asian American narrative continues to evolve BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Emil Amok, masked in Manhattan BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On Hawaii's Iam Tongi and his "American Idol" win; plus, Harvard's Asian Americans and my solution to "fair admissions" BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The third Trump indictment and your voting rights BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: We know the killer in Monterey Park; now mourn the loss and note the real threat of guns BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Our history, our democracy, our lost paradise BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Pondering the historic indictment in New York, and the first presidential mugshot? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Cries and screams in order after mass shooting in Allen, Texas mars AANHPI Heritage Month BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Democracy split screen for 2024–Trump's mug shot and Biden by the banyan BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Gift wrapping the Chinese Exclusion Act for the holidays BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The SCOTUS tease on affirmative action BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Robert Hur, Ke Huy Quan, and MLK BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Rosalynn Carter's way, and pardoning your own turkey BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: An Asian American perspective on the history-making of Trump and Harvard BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Flip Nauta, flip? Why Nauta's not likely to flip; plus my Father's Day essay BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: McCarthy's Bakersfield Ugly politics and the 118th Congress BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The Harvard Filipino joke and the death knell for affirmative action BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: What we do for love, money, and democracy BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The coincidence of AANHPI Month and Mental Health Awareness Month BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: What I think of when you say AANHPI Heritage Month BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On Barbara Walters, Pope Benedict XVI, and the NFL's Damar Hamlin, plus a Purdue slur update BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The Trump Indictments–Where Do You Stand on the Waltine Nauta Scale BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The "Five Eyes" for the first time herald a new era of suspicion in the U.S. BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Tyre Nichols; Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay update-suspect confesses; Corky Lee, and Emil Amok in NYC BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Dirty money for Tagalog at Harvard? Ethnic media and the American Book Awards BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Thinking about gun violence and Thai Khin, Asian American teen shot and killed in school adjacent incident BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Asians (Thai and Filipino) caught in the middle in the Middle East; plus, my cousin Stephen's birthday BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Joe Biden's roaring back, and he's got our back BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: How I got into Harvard and you can too-- In spite of SCOTUS affirmative action opinion BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Celebrating Pride Month and Protecting Drag as Free Speech BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Why I will see "Here Lies Love," the tuneful autocratic dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Indiana attack may force Purdue's hand to acknowledge anti-AAPAI racism in state BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Congressional gold medals to veterans featured in new book from Smithsonian BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Chaotic Trump? America wants a generic donkey BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Recounting my birthday and a dispatch from an Asian American Filipino Israeli BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The Chinese grad student and a gun; and 60 years after "I Have A Dream" BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Shohei Ohtani and the new AC–Asian Consciousness–in America BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Whatever happens, the SCOTUS opinion on the Harvard affirmative action case won't be the last word BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: First means something in October if you're an Asian American Filipino BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Martial law comes to Broadway in "Here Lies Love;" just don't be fooled by the love story BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On Executive Order 9066, racism, the brain, and Presidents Day BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Can Lapu-Lapu in "1521" pull them in like Olivia Rodrigo? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Pearl Harbor still defines Asian America BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The latest AALDEF exit poll on Biden and abortion rights BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The legacy of affirmative action BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Justin Jones is still black. . . and Asian American Filipino BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The pro-democracy charge of Ninoy Aquino; Maui candor, and model minority politics BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Common App deadlines, post-SCOTUS Harvard admissions, and the resource problem exposed BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: For nation's most Asian American state, Newsom's cynical choice to replace Feinstein in the Senate BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Half Moon Bay, Monterey Park, and the AAPI assimilation into America's gun narrative BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On James Hong's "Everything Everywhere All At Once" awards moment and remembering Victor Wong BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The Asian American moment in the Tennessee attack on democracy BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: 22 years later, making sense of 9/11 on 9/12 BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Justice delayed and denied, from Juneteenth to Vincent Chin BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Stefanik's attack on diversity is the start of a new anti-civil rights movement BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Walt Nauta, native of Guam, and the legacy of colonization BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump's outbursts make Filipino history relevant during Filipino American History Month BLOG
2022
- Emil Guillermo: Asian American? Do we know how we all feel about living in America? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Hopes dim for celebration on voting rights legislation by MLK Day, but the fight never ends BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Remembering Ninoy Aquino while saying farewell to CNN's "Reliable Sources" BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: My respect for marriage and why interracial marriages had to be part of the new law BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Uvalde, Texas shooting a reminder, gun control is an AAPI issue BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Asian American Filipina Olivia Rodrigo's three Grammys make her the Gen Z future–for now BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Remembering Fred T. Korematsu and a 6-3 Supreme Court from a different time BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: A last dance at the top for California Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Law and order, Trump, and the Muslim killings BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Rallying for truth and democracy a year after Jan. 6 from an Asian American perspective BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Norman Y. Mineta, Mr. Asian America, made this a special AAPI Heritage Month BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Liz Cheney wants you–for democracy's sake BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Was the ethnic vote America's Blue Wave rising...or falling? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Walter Nauta, “Jeopardy,” LA City Council racism, and the first Filipinos to the New World BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: White House Correspondents Dinner is milestone for normalcy as Biden leads with First Amendment BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The Golden Gu-ster's identity problem and why we need to hear from Ailing Eileen Gu BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: My post-Thanksgiving gut punch–remembering Ninoy and Stephen BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Four decades since five days of pain–a way to remember Vincent Chin and forget, not forgive, his killer BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: SCOTUS, Dred Scott, Filipino American history, and Ishmael Reed's new play BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: One year into the Biden Administration, we've all been pushed like Michelle Go BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Asian Americans know Will Smith's casual violence can be deadly BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: In California, an Asian American Republican's cry of racism is just a strategic ploy BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: After yet another mass shooting, GOP and NRA still covered in blood, playing dead BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: For Ketanji Brown Jackson, the path to justice was undeniable BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Pelosi's stand in Taiwan and the choice of democracy over autocracy even here. BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Will the first Asian American president fire the racist chancellor at Purdue in 2023? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Biden’s Fist Bump of Penance, but did he ever use the “P” word with MBS? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The raid of FPOTUS, and you know what the F stands for BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On voting rights, it was Biden's "I Have A Dream" BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Buffalo victims could have been Asian American under "replacement theory" BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: When Politicians Fail, I’ve Got My Own Mask Policy BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Some Asian American history, but no telescope helps see truth of Jan. 6 BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Bloody Sunday, plus Pumping for Peace and taking on higher gas prices for tougher Russian sanctions BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On guns, the Jan. 6 hearings on democracy, and the Tonys BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Queen? I'm mourning Henry Fuhrmann, the Asian American who liberated us from the hyphen BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: It's Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month AND Mental Health Awareness Month. Do you know where the next shooters are? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On Fanone's Asian American kids, Jan. 6 apologies, and Vincent Chin BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: America gets "A" in nuclear physics, but flunks anti-Asian hate crime math BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Harvard admits record 80 percent Asian Americans for incoming fall class; plus, Sen. Ted Cruz is neither Asian nor a woman BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Thoughts as we approach one year after the Atlanta spa murders BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: California Asian Americans should revere the leadership of Sen. Dianne Feinstein BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On DACA, Filipino history, and Harvard BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The names in the confluence of history: 9/11 and a Queen's funeral, an empire's reckoning BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Many Asian American Filipinos dread a Marcos victory BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: My pre-Thanksgiving colonoscopy BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Hurricane Ian dumps on DeSantis, lifts Biden BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On indigenous people, vegan justice, DACA, and the NBA's workplace violence problem BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Obamas remind us how democracy worked for all; Plus, dreaming of an Asian American presidential portrait BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On Earth Day, save the planet. Save yourself. Go vegan. BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On watching Zelensky's speech on a day that lives in infamy for Asian Americans BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Nathan Chen, Chloe Kim–Americans in Asia, our Olympic gold. Model minorities or just medal minorities? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Hearing Christina Yuna Lee's screams BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Winter Olympics? First, we remember the Uyghurs BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Asian Americans know why we're here. All that is at stake on Election Day, Nov. 8. BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Of Simu Liu's Jeopardy, Jin Yut Lew's jeopardy, and a good win for all of us BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Roe reversal makes America suddenly more Filipino. Unfortunately. BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: A monk's last breath and the high anxiety of affirmative action BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Purdue Northwest Chancellor's Asian slur and why it's still the AAPI story of the moment BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Warnock saw Asian Americans and helped people see the future of politics BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The first time I saw a million people marching in the streets united BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Shinzo Abe, Highland Park, Guns. BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: My trickle up theory and how student loan forgiveness denial should motivate Asian Americans to vote BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: With race-conscious college admissions at Harvard and UNC, our stories are on the line BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: 2022 and the colonial scars are still open wounds - Podcast with a student struggling with history at the home of the colonizer BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: New waves of xenophobia toward Asian Americans? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The State of the Union may be strong, but the speech could have been even stronger BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Georgia's vote for No. 1; in Oakland, No. 2 was good enough BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Roe v. Wade overturned and the tears in our divided country BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Best and worst presidents; Japanese American internment plus 80; and democracy's fight for Ukraine BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: There's never been an Asian American on the U.S. Supreme Court BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Olympian Eileen Gu's blurred loyalties BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Patriotic matters–Rep. Judy Chu's Asian American civil disobedience; Ketanji Brown Jackson; Thinking of Jan. 6th on July 4th BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: California's primary–Bonta, Boudin and recall BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The fight for freedom and diversity; What Ukraine and Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson tell us about the world and our nation BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Michelle Steel's shame sours hopeful signs after 2022 midterms BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Asian Americans should see ourselves in Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson BLOG
2021
- Emil Guillermo: Asian American Filipina Journalist Maria Ressa wins Nobel Peace Prize BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: When I see George Floyd, I see an Asian American–and so should you BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: What I learned meditating on my Vincent Chin "retreat" BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On the 79th anniversary of E.O. 9066 and the incarceration of Japanese Americans, xenophobia is alive and well BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Asian Americans must demand accountability for Trump's Insurrection Day BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Juneteenth and Vincent Chin's June 19th BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On Filipino American labor leader Larry Itliong's principles and a last word on Colin Powell BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Will Biden's words make a difference for Asian Americans or does the hate get recycled? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: No sex, just lies and Trump's audio tape to overturn the election BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Remembering Corky Lee and the deaths from the Covid War and Modern Life BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Shooting deaths in Atlanta highlight Asian American fears as hate incidents near 4,000 cases BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On Filipino nurses, Lisa Ling and Vincent Chin, and Filipino American history BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On Vax Americana and 9/11–Getting the vaccine out and getting to be one country again BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Branson's trip? Nothing like an Asian American immigrant's journey BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On "Firsterism" and other lessons from Gen. Colin Powell BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: I can beat the virus in Vax Americana, but maybe not the anti-Asian racism. For that, I need a shot of Vincent Chin. BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Michelle Wu, Aftab Pureval, and Bruce Harrell drive Asian American hopes for our democracy BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Rob Bonta, Filipino American nominated for California Attorney General BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Ohtani attacks make Stephen A. Smith the modern-day Al Campanis BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Simone Biles is back but let's not forget Suni Lee's gold medal stereotype busting BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Assault gun ban overturned in California–an opportunity for new State AG Rob Bonta? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Our Asian Heritage Month? Say the full name. Say it all. BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Hana St. Juliana of Oxford, Michigan, and other Asian American casualties of gun violence BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Does Anyone See Us This AANHPIHM?–Plus, Death To the Standardized Asian American and Asian Jokes BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Biden's executive order beats the "kung flu," maybe more? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: I'm negative and I'm proud; plus the grace of Alex Urtula's family BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The Republicans who voted against the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act don't care about Asian Americans BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Bigotry on Broadway, 'South Pacific,' the Tonys, and BD Wong BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Discrimination? Harvard early admissions show Asian Americans not left out in the cold; plus a legal update BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: For July 4, how about an American pro-democracy movement? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The second impeachment trial and the power of 74 million votes BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Diversity and the recall effort's "January Sixing" of California BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: In the end, still more Asian American than any Oscars in history BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: #StopAAPIHate needed more than ever; Rittenhouse judge's Asian joke BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The Asian American Pakistani man who died in Astroworld tragedy and democracy's mosh pit BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: If you slur an Asian or Asian American like baseball's Jack Morris, here's your "model apology" BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Asian Americans understand impeachment for inciting a white mob BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: My short, candid conversation with Lin-Manuel Miranda on "In the Heights," "Crazy Rich..." Jon Chu, immigration, "Hamilton," and Ishmael Reed BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree, plus how Marjorie Taylor Greene is the wrong color to use yellow BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: More Asian confusion in Georgia as whites fight off call for hate crimes in Atlanta murders; Plus, Asian Americans top Harvard admits BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: After the Golden Globes, what is an Asian American anything? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Lowell High students "Try Harder," but SF educators need to do better than eliminate merit BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Atlanta, an Asian American awakening—not just for us, but for the rest of America too. BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: H.E.R. Grammy song of George Floyd is our song too BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: NYC Beating Survivor Vilma Kari is an Asian American Filipino BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The bitter melon of little-known history–How the Filipinos beat the Pilgrims to America BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Where do we belong in the America of Kyle Rittenhouse, Paul Gosar, and Jan. 6? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Getting racial justice without race in the Arbery Trial BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: George Floyd, Angelo Quinto, and the cycle of bad policing BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The inaugural light and magic of Biden, Harris, and Gorman BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Hate crimes past and present; plus, why does UC Berkeley insist on honoring the colonizers? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: To end 2021 and ring in 2022, DIY: Be your own New Year's Baby BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Biden's speech, Scott's gaffe, and Happy APA Heritage Month BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: My Olympic finale, Suni Lee's future, and how I birthed the word "Cuomosexual" BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: In Indianapolis, another mass shooting and more Asian Americans are killed BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: This Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, do you know the Chindipinos? How about Arthur Gunn? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: America's Asian confusion, Stephen A., and DACA BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On Labor Day, we could use an Asian America superhero; from the Sherpas, to Mineta, Mink, and Larry Itliong BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Rare Corky Lee interview reveals much about the late Asian American photographer BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: "Shang-Chi" rules the world, but 2021 Emmys' a different universe BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Afghan Americans are Asian Americans–Here's one AAA's view BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The Republican recall effort in California is over, but the threat to democracy is everywhere in the U.S. BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Diverse jurors deliver justice for George Floyd in Chauvin verdicts BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The other Filipino vets, war brides, and why Veterans Day means a lot to the Filipino American community BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: When history makes news for Chinatown, Asian Americans, and Filipino Americans BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: It's "L.A. Day"–"Losing Afghanistan Day" in America BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Being mindful of Simone Biles and Suni Lee BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The Pro-Democracy Movement Comes to New York City BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: What letter does Trump leave behind for Biden? Plus inaugural thoughts on the great undoing BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Tampa Bay hero? In my insurrectionist's Super Bowl, it's always David Fagen, African American and honorary Filipino BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Angelo Quinto is Asian America's George Floyd BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Asian American Filipina’s Historic Gold, But Was it Right To Have Olympics? Plus: Kristina Wong and a Covid salon BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Atlanta plea deal no surprise–it's hard to get justice if you're Asian American BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Farewell to Corky Lee, the undisputed Asian American photographer laureate BLOG
2020
- Emil Guillermo: That Nevada debate was Warren's shining moment, but Sanders still leads BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump knows better; It's an American virus that's killing Americans BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: For AAPIs, Yang's Biden endorsement overshadows Sanders' mauling on night coronavirus wins--but Bernie has the last word BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Harvard and affirmative action, polling with Asians, and Jennifer Laude's murderer BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Will we see "positive pandering" to Asian Americans for Super Tuesday? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Stocking stuffers? Pro-Democracy, my Asian American Black Bottom, and Harvard's early Christmas BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Kamala's historic moment for diversity at the DNC BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Filling in the white boxes with glee, voting for our democracy BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump gets his third Supreme Court justice in record time and builds the wall that matters BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Democracy in disarray: Iowa, Impeachment, and The State of the Union BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The Virus, Hate Violence, and the Death March BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Count every vote–the president can't dictate the election BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: New Hampshire brings new frontrunner, just as I was warming up to Andrew Yang BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump's debate performance yet another sign he's unfit to lead BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: An Asian American twist to understanding Pearl Harbor BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Vice Presidential debate is a peek into the future of American politics BLOG
- Emil Guillermo Podcast: The Slants didn't hurt Native American cause after all BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Super Tuesday fallout and Warren's choice BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: John Lewis knew we were all in the same boat BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Pew’s Asian American voter analysis in time for APA Heritage Month BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Zoom check-in for APA Heritage Month! BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Every Asian American owes a debt to Ruth Bader Ginsburg BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Masked in America? It's hard to wear a face mask in the U.S., but it shouldn't be BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Pro-Democracy movement needed–in America BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Deep breath? I heard what Trump said. We all did. BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Making sure Asian Americans show up; plus, a Filipino American history controversy BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Colonized by Covid? A podcast interview with E.J. Ramos David BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: A rallying call for Covid-stricken farmworker activist Dolores Velasco and a -30- for Pete Hamill BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump transitions to reality BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Biden-Harris victorious as America celebrates democracy BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The fighting Filipino American nurses of Covid-19 BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Survey says Asian Americans love Biden; Bernie and Michelle save Day One of Dems' Zoom convention BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Covid highs, Trump lows BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Asian Pacific American Heritage Month cancelled? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Nearly 700 cases of anti-Asian American hate crimes after Trump's "Chinese Virus" talk BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump statement is not enough to end the anti-Asian virus he started BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Victory for Dreamers at SCOTUS, but... BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Sick? Trump taking private lessons at Covid U. BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Federal judge stops administration's Census speed-up–now get counted; plus Asian Americans on Breonna Taylor BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: What if Bernie said an Asian American couldn't get elected? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: My favorite Asian American labor hero BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump's bawl game, truth silos, and the white ethnic press BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: George Floyd and Vincent Chin BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On restoring DACA, truth, and illegal Homeland Security chiefs BLOG
- More Trump Kung Flu, Estelita's powerful immigration story, and Vincent Chin BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Two Asian American friends zoom each other BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: PODCAST - A Filipino American nurse at Elmhurst Hospital talks about the covid-19 pandemic BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump is the Anti-MLK BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Can we ward off the first American dictatorship? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The soft stonewall of Amy Coney Barrett BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Our knees on the necks of racists everywhere, and the work still to be done BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Oscar’s global message—“Parasite,” anti-speciesism, and love BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The aftertaste of Disney's "Hamilton," and Trump at Mount Rushmore BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: WSJ's Peggy Noonan says progressives are "mean and seek to kill"? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Dems energized as Biden awakens with strong speech at DNC BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The white darkness of truth-challenged Trump Republicans at the RNC BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: George Floyd, racist monuments, and one in Minneapolis called "The Hiker" BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: No more debates! Who won last night's finale? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump the isolationist gets us to the brink of an endless world war BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump RNC ends with odd Asian American note BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump's autocratic Asian fantasy through Lafayette Park BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Asian Americans speak out on "kung flu" fallout; California + other states shut down again; GOP distancing from Trump? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Hey Class of 2020, mask up and listen! BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The Democrats' unbecoming "Berniephobia" BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Better Asian American or just better than Trump? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Did 2020 really happen? Prepare for Trumpthink 2021. BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The alarming Covid-19 death rate of Pacific Islanders BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump's commutation of Stone; and understanding "cancel culture" BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Home alone–America self-quarantining for coronavirus' sake BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: How is this Asian Pacific American Heritage Month different from all others? One word—Covid. BLOG
2019
- Emil Guillermo: Asian Americans were lynched too--On Trump's offensive lynching remark BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The Mueller report and "F" words, "A" words, and "I" words BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: After five days of quiet solidarity for Vincent Chin, get ready for the new ICE age BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: More Amok after 25 years BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: A California blackout, Trump's defiance, and the First Amendment BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: A desperate Trump rides the Tiger BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The hero returns and Tiger's mom is no Tiger Mom BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump's sanctuary dump and the mischaracterization of California's law to protect immigrants BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On Spelling Bee Champs, NBA Finals, Jeremy Lin and the Golden State Warriors BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: America has a white supremacy problem, and it starts at the top BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: I am but a trim tab for diversity watching Sandra Oh on the Golden Globes BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Americans go back home? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: A changing Asian America? Don't bet on it. BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The grandmother vs. the motherf***** BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: New Gerrymandering Proposal--Redrawing Congressional Districts in Trump’s Image--and other matters of April Fools BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Does Andrew Yang know the Kool-Aid he was drinking at the CNN debate? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Celebrating the Nationals, and the World Series of Politics–Impeachment BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: I.M. Pei - The death of an icon who built icons BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Dayton's message to the president, and still feeling "othered" in America BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Philippines? India? Trump is our homegrown democracy crisis BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: My mom, International Women's Day, and politicizing hate in America BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Don't be fooled, the SCOTUS ruling on Korematsu still holds; Remembering a modest immigrant BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Revealing Asian America--Ali Wong lifts her dress BLOG
- Judge affirms race-conscious admissions in Harvard case BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Shutdown exit plan? On the brink of blinkdom. BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Kamala Harris fizzles as diversity's hope in presidential race BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: My Muslim family, the New Zealand video, and the Great Replacement BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Asian immigrant voices on House Judiciary Committee provide conscience for impeachment BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: "Go back"? "Go home"? Part of my story--the human zoos at the 1904 World's Fair BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The President gets a D for D-Day BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Hong Kong, Democracy, and Trump BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Furloughed Asian American federal workers blame President Shutdown; and painting DC Spalding Gray BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: "Go home" is Trump's Foray into Fascism BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The USWNT Win Was the Highlight of My Forced Visit to Iowa BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Why you won't hear about the Seaport Three in the State of the Union address BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: After Trump declares national emergency--my Rx: Ken Jeong BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Fear the blurts, not just the tweets on Greenland, public charge, recession, and now birthright citizenship BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump's dog and gloating; California fires; and Halloween BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Blowing the whistle on Trump BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Presidential debate winner? Bowen Yang; and what to do about SNL's new racist comic BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Barr's Cliff Notes on Mueller report make for perfect AALDEF dinner talk BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Our "new national nightmare"? Impeachment talk on the rise for MLK weekend BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: America's Impeachment is our Pro-Democracy Movement BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Why won't Kamala Harris talk about being Asian on CNN's Iowa Town Hall? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Impeachment season has arrived BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Thank those who uphold the truth; Does that include Nikki Haley? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Burning Man in the Trump era BLOG
- The future of immigration? That Rio Grande image, DACA, and Gen Z BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Marianne vs. Trump the public racist: Will the 2020 election be a referendum on White Supremacy? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The fight is on in Hong Kong, but there's a battle for Asian American civil liberties in the U.S. too BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Father's Day gift? Give the gift of Emil Amok! BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump "Tipped" Over by House as President Is Impeached BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The Asian American community scores a win as SNL drops Shane Gillis BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On Oscar's "Bao," Trump in Hanoi, and the stories of Michael Cohen BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: You feeling the impeachment hearings, yah? BLOG
- Thoughts on the CNN-NYT Democratic presidential debate and why Bernie should go vegan BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Another Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month? Not like May for Maria Ressa BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor exposes politics of fear in Census citizenship question BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump's Queen Problems BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Remembering 9/11 through an Asian American named Chin Sun Pak Wells; and a Sunday school visit with Jimmy Carter BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On pardoning 46 million turkeys, passing the tofu pot pie, and the holiday table talk BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The fight for our legacy communities in New York's Lower East Side and around the U.S. BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Will Kamala Harris be the first Asian American president? BLOG
2018
- Emil Guillermo: Time to remove the redacted one? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The beginning of America's undoing--the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh BLOG
- Konnichiwa? Zinke’s stink a sign of cluelessness as xenophobia rises in US BLOG
- PODCAST: Emil Amok's Takeout - Asian American and Pacific Islander Mental Health Empowerment? BLOG
- Will “Crazy Rich Asians” make us forget the “screwed over poor Asian Americans,” and all the rest of us? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: October is Filipino American History Month--get out the birthday suit and celebrate! BLOG
- The striker who became teacher – Podcast with Daniel P. Gonzales on how ethnic studies was birthed at San Francisco State University BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Racism, sexism, and Brett Kavanaugh BLOG
- PODCAST – California legislator David Chiu on the most Asian American state being sued by the feds BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: My gift to you for Christmastime--a real Donald Trump shutdown BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: After Florence and Mangkhut, time to talk seriously about climate change? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Crazy poor Asian on "Crazy Rich Asians" BLOG
- State of the Union? Truthfully–chaotic, unless Trump says this BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Anti-affirmative action in yellowface BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Cooking Trump the Turkey and more, Herb Caen three-dot style BLOG
- This Memorial Day, remember the gun industry's war on America BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Maybe abdication would appeal to Trump? How about exile? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Happy new year, you crazy rich Asians! BLOG
- On anonymity, Kavanaugh, and exclusion BLOG
- Almost an Asian American Winter Olympics, but no medal for NBC BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Will Senate enable Brett Kavanaugh's bum-rush of the high court? BLOG
- Comey’s “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership”–Time to get on the same page BLOG
- Lunar new year dinner to avert constitutional crisis? BLOG
- The shape of things? Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro says keep dreaming, as ICE whips up fear among immigrants BLOG
- “J” is for “Jawdrop”– Time for the censure of President Donald J. Trump BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump politicizes death of California Police Officer Ronil Singh BLOG
- At #MarchForOurLives, kids will lead the fight against gun violence BLOG
- Filipino American scholar Dawn Mabalon, my friend and historical muse, leaves us at 46 BLOG
- Census citizenship question? Only to harass people of color. Plus, Ass’n of Asian American Studies meets in SF 50 years after historic strike BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On George H.W. Bush--Bury the man, but not the truth BLOG
- Why did Donald Trump make DACA/Dreamers his political football? BLOG
- Trump keeps pushing the limits of American Whiteness BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: A new divided America after the midterm elections, but Trump? Still the same. BLOG
- Trump urges “Love Bill” for DACA, but a California federal judge offers real protection for Dreamers; and a 20/20 on Oprah BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On hoodoos, the Harvard trial, and story slamming BLOG
- "Some Asians"? A retired Harvard dean's telling remark BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On death, racial slurs, and John McCain; and one more memory of historian Dawn Mabalon BLOG
- Trump’s megalomania exposed in “Fire and Fury” BLOG
- Emil Gullermo: A good immigration story and a sad one, days apart BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Tuesday's vote, our Asian American racial identity, and the Harvard case BLOG
2017
- PODCAST – Last night of “Amok Monologues” at the San Diego Fringe Festival BLOG
- Trump’s Cruise Missile Viagra; Gorsuch; and a PODCAST: Bataan Death March–75 years later; and beyond whitewashing of “Ghost in the Shell” BLOG
- Filipino WWII Vet Almeda wins his claim; Fil-Vets honored at Congressional Gold Medal ceremony BLOG
- Rejecting a Trumpulent America BLOG
- After firing Comey, Trump emerges the New Nixon BLOG
- Not shutting up now–King Donald’s War on Immigrants, and a podcast extra with Dream activist Hina Naveed BLOG
- Dragged United passenger Dr. David Dao is no Rosa Parks, but he could be a poster boy for all consumers; PODCAST: Dr. Dao’s case; Mimi Hwang BLOG
- Actor BD Wong says his Emmy-nominated role in “Mr. Robot” doesn’t “defame or devalue trans-ness” or he would not do it BLOG
- Trump gets trumped by federal judges out west, and a new PODCAST– In Virginia, a judge protects a Filipino American’s rights BLOG
- Fake tax cuts in a taxing holiday season BLOG
- Emil Guillermo PODCAST: Randall Park at the APAICS gala for AAPI Heritage Month talks about Asian American representation in the media BLOG
- On workplace harassment, “Me Too,” and Apu BLOG
- Sanitized travel ban 2.0 has database provision to criminalize Muslims in America; PODCAST–Deepa Iyer says immigrant communities “already living in fear” BLOG
- Emil Amok’s Takeout Podcast – No rest on Memorial Day for a WWII Filipino Vet; and a conversation with AAAS President-elect Theo Gonzalves on APAHM BLOG
- Photographer Corky Lee on his life, exclusion, and the Golden Spike photo; PODCAST EXTRA: That Trumpcare vote, and more BLOG
- A Bitcoin for your thoughts as Trump Year One ends and 2018 begins BLOG
- Kneeling for Puerto Rico and surviving the survival politics of Donald Trump BLOG
- Paris Accord pullout? Trump’s twitter logorrhea impacts our political climate even more; and a Podcast on our community conundrum: Are South Asians really Asian? BLOG
- Asian American says Obamacare saved his life, in AALDEF podcast BLOG
- UPDATED–Judge Robart’s halt of travel ban frees a Yemeni American father and daughter after “Kafka-esque” journey from Djibouti BLOG
- First Charlie Rose, then Matt Lauer; Who tells Trump, “You’re fired”? BLOG
- United must treat Asian Americans–or any other passengers–as human beings with dignity BLOG
- Creeping along from Obama 44 to Trump 45 BLOG
- Undocumented, But Undaunted–An Asian American DACA recipient experiences Trump’s big speech BLOG
- CAPAC leader Rep. Judy Chu on skipping the Trump inaugural, saving health care, Dreamers, and more BLOG
- Oh no, “Hawaii Five-0” and what it means to all of us BLOG
- In a Trump era, Fred Korematsu matters more today than ever BLOG
- Flips all over the place–Flynn, Trump, Taxes, and DACA BLOG
- Military necessity? Japanese Latin Americans say U.S. owes an apology for WWII kidnappings; Also on the PODCAST, Trumpcare’s defeat BLOG
- Thoughts on Rep. John Lewis, Desus and Mero, and Steve Harvey for the MLK Weekend BLOG
- Who is Asian American? On AMEMSA, Vincent Chin, and my Amok Monologues for Father’s Day. PODCAST EXTRA: Karthick Ramakrishnan BLOG
- The Slants’ Simon Tam speaks candidly on PODCAST: “The cure for hate speech isn’t censorship…let communities decide, not government.” BLOG
- Big fires in NorCal; Vandalism in Little Manila BLOG
- If Filipinos were here first, shouldn’t this be the United States of the Philippines? BLOG
- Three Asian Americans on Harvey: A stranded evacuee, a Katrina survivor, and a Trump booster BLOG
- Fil Vets of WWII don’t die, they “just fade away;” but so does the feel good moment BLOG
- Trump’s total eclipse of American values BLOG
- Oscars, bathroom debate, and immigration–In one year, America goes from #OscarsSoWhite to #TrumpSoWhite BLOG
- What killed DACA? Trump’s white identity politics BLOG
- Remembering the evictions at San Francisco’s International Hotel BLOG
- Congress shines light on extrajudicial killings in the Philippines; A survivor’s tale under oath BLOG
- The GOP ethics reversal and Asian American leader Mike Honda BLOG
- How a Yemeni girl and her dad missed the Super Bowl, but beat Trump’s travel ban–and stressed out their lawyers BLOG
- Getting justice could be even harder with Judge Gorsuch on the Supreme Court BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Earth Day–PODCAST Interview with Asian Pacific Environmental Network’s Miya Yoshitani, Trump’s 100 Days, and Bill O’Reilly’s ousting BLOG
- On Alex Tizon’s “Lola” BLOG
- Phil Tajitsu Nash remembers the 75th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 & the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans BLOG
- Trump’s 100 vs. real anniversaries: the LA riots, a cousin’s death, and Asian Pacific American Heritage Month; PODCAST: Will Dao get a tax cut? And more… BLOG
- Eddie Huang caps an AAJA committed to telling our Asian American stories BLOG
- Hurricane Harvey is more proof–Trump doesn’t know how to act presidential, or human BLOG
- “Mommy, I need you,” a Mother’s Day podcast memory; plus Trump grows more Nixony by the day BLOG
- When San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee invited me in from the rain BLOG
- Is Srinivas Kuchibhotla the Vincent Chin for South Asians? BLOG
- This November’s word? Trumpudiation–but not everyone is cheering BLOG
- Bipartisan politics wins Congressional medal for Filipino Vets, right-wing ire for Trump on DACA BLOG
- Podcast–What you need to know now about DACA BLOG
- Thanks to Hawaii and Ismail Elshikh, Travel Ban 2.0 Blocked For Now BLOG
- Beyond current travel ban proposal–Are Asians and Asian Americans next? BLOG
- Lessons from Vincent Chin murder 35 years after; Podcast interview with Helen Zia; and thoughts on my interview with Chin’s killer, Ronald Ebens BLOG
- Marilou Danley, Stephen Paddock, and gun control BLOG
2016
- Asian Americans, people of color not taken for granted by Clinton, but she isn’t focused on us BLOG
- Trump tapes are the vulgarization of American democracy BLOG
- Blasts from the past in the 2016 campaign season, with a touch of anti-Asian xenophobia BLOG
- The nostalgic racism of Fox and “American Idol,” still hung up on William Hung BLOG
- Barack and Raul is the new dance beat in Cuba, but will it catch fire for Congress to end the blockade? BLOG
- In the red part of blue state California, Asian Americans have felt the burn, find hope in Sanders BLOG
- Muhammad Ali spoke out for all people of color, even Asian Americans BLOG
- Why I’m not watching #SuperBowl50, but rooting for Kenny Stabler instead BLOG
- Shut down Guantanamo, and while you’re at it, don’t call it Gitmo BLOG
- Post 9/11, President Carter’s Sunday complaint, Hillary Clinton’s pneumonia, & Sunny Wells turning 40 BLOG
- Orlando massacre another wakeup call for all Americans to unite against homophobia, Islamophobia, and gun violence BLOG
- Bill Clinton and a veteran Sacramento TV reporter make my AAJA BLOG
- Harvard admits record number of Asian Americans, and a majority-minority class of 2020 BLOG
- On Addison Russell, Asian American World Series hero, the World Series, and Voting BLOG
- Filipino American History Month opens with a jolt of Hitler from Philippine President Duterte BLOG
- On Pearl Harbor Day, Mike Honda hopes everyone remembers our history lesson BLOG
- Year of the Monkey, my father’s birthday, & Sacramento Kings’ DeMarcus Cousins’ ignorance BLOG
- Asian Americans not immune from gun violence, so why no mention in Obama’s CNN gun show? BLOG
- Duterte can’t bury past with Marcos, as the politically “inconceivable” continues in the Philippines and the U.S. of Trump BLOG
- The tie that binds–the Supreme Court after Scalia is a boon to labor unions BLOG
- “Master of None” Emmy winner’s message to Tiger Moms–Don’t let your babies grow up to be violinists BLOG
- How Filipinos discovered America, though America still resists discovering them BLOG
- 2016 National Asian American Survey More Revealing Than Veep Debate BLOG
- How Trump’s business partner in the Philippines, Jose E.B. Antonio, does business with Filipino Americans BLOG
- Green light for doubting voters–FBI clears Clinton, Trump goes back to rigged talk; Remember Mallika Das on Election Day BLOG
- For many Asian Americans, Vincent Chin’s death was an awakening BLOG
- The day the Philippines first stood up to Marcos BLOG
- Obama’s one last appeal for a United States that works–together BLOG
- Does SFPD racist texting scandal help us understand NYPD’s Liang-Gurley case? BLOG
- Third presidential debate moment–Asian Americans know what it means when politicians don’t accept election results BLOG
- Not a spy in the house-Chinese American scientist Xiaoxing Xi; his daughter, Joyce; and Wen Ho Lee BLOG
- Hillary had me at Rodham, as she stakes out the new middle BLOG
- Asian Americans back Bernie Sanders in new Field Poll in California, but don’t jump to conclusions–yet BLOG
- After Broadway exit, “Allegiance” makes nationwide one-night stand, Dec. 13 BLOG
- Did you Lochte Olympics like I Lochte Olympics? BLOG
- Iowa? More than 90 percent white, but Asian Americans will caucus in Election 2016 BLOG
- We are all No. 42 on Jackie Robinson Day, even Asian Americans like Tim Lincecum BLOG
- Donald Trump’s new heights of megalomania BLOG
- A bombastic July 4th is needed to drown the sorrow of our Summer of Terror BLOG
- Debate over Marcos burial a red herring for Duterte’s Marcos Lite BLOG
- Prince–Beyond race, a genius’ vision, an activist’s heart BLOG
- My holiday gift to you–A Disaggregated Asian America! BLOG
- Justice Antonin Scalia’s death signals potential for change–time for an Asian American justice on the Supreme Court? BLOG
- Asian American vote? Trump #NotMyPresident yet, but America still my country and Obama still our leader BLOG
- Father’s Day, Orlando, and Islamophobia BLOG
- The Donald trumps insult to Filipinos with veiled assassination threat BLOG
- Vincent Rodriguez III as the love object of Rachel Bloom? CW’s “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” is my kind of show BLOG
- Our top posts of 2016, plus a podcast on Fox News, Asian Americans, and affirmative action BLOG
- #OscarsSoWhite? Oscars so long, dull, and out of focus BLOG
- On John Leguizamo, colonial mentality, and Dallas BLOG
- Obamacare, Millennials, and Hillary or Donald for Halloween? BLOG
- Before the Clinton vs. Trump “Super Bowl” of Presidential Debates, will you kneel with Time cover boy Colin Kaepernick? BLOG
- On the race question, Donald Trump, Democrats, and why not an Asian American debate? BLOG
- Obama pardons turkeys; should we pardon Trump? BLOG
- My interview with an Asian American for Trump BLOG
- Thinking about the Brussels strikes and my new fear–Demagoguephobia BLOG
2015
- If you sue for discrimination like Ellen Pao, you’d better have the goods. Or be like this Uber driver with a smoking hot video. BLOG
- Asian Americans are Charlie Hebdo BLOG
- Breaking News: NY Times/CBS poll on race doesn’t care much about Asian Americans or Latinos BLOG
- We should have heard from UC knife suspect Faisal Mohammad BLOG
- Simon Tam’s fight to reappropriate “The Slants” seems more uphill than ever BLOG
- America’s profound ignorance about the Delano Grape Strike, Filipino Americans, and Larry Itliong BLOG
- The FBI finally used the “T” word in San Bernardino, but will it fan “Islamophobia”? BLOG
- Sherpa fears Nepal earthquake could end climbing season on Mt. Everest (updated) BLOG
- Margaret Cho stole the show at the Golden Globes BLOG
- The silencing of Roanoke journalists by bullets, Jorge Ramos by Donald Trump BLOG
- Happy FK Day! FK Day? For Fred Korematsu, of course BLOG
- 50 years later, Asian American images and links galore for 2015; Here comes Aziz Ansari in 2016 BLOG
- Is “Fresh Off The Boat” historical or the taming of Eddie Huang? BLOG
- From SCOTUS to Jenner, LGBTQ is on the front burner of civil rights BLOG
- All the anti-Muslim talk in the presidential campaign, and Pope Francis’ Asian American numbers BLOG
- ‘Last Fable Day’? Asian Americans looking for a first one, as “Fresh Off the Boat” Snubbed for Emmy Awards BLOG
- Hikaru Nakamura, No. 1 US chess player, and Chloe Portia Chik, Asian face on the Hillary video–a new Asian American identity? BLOG
- San Francisco for Halloween–Shrimp Boy or Ed Lee? BLOG
- Planned Parenthood shooting claims Asian American victim, Hawaii’s Jennifer Markovsky BLOG
- So many Republican candidates, but do they want the Voting Rights Act to help us vote for them? BLOG
- Riding Wong Kim Ark to combat GOP’s anchor baby talk, and thanks to family of Dr. Suzanne Ahn BLOG
- Where’s Patsy Mink? Starbucks’ #RaceTogether short-shrifts Asian Americans BLOG
- The new Asian American civil war over affirmative action? BLOG
- Syrian refugees, Japanese American internees, and the new American hysteria BLOG
- Do Asian American lives matter? BLOG
- Vincent Chin died 33 years ago, an injustice still; Ronald Ebens, Chin’s killer, still owes millions to the Chin estate. BLOG
- On Selma, Todd Endo, and the continuing fight for justice in all of America’s institutions BLOG
- Margaret Cho talks to me about the Golden Globes, the White Oscars, “Fresh Off the Boat,” and Sex BLOG
- The fight for pay equity is not over for many Filipino veterans of WWII BLOG
- NYPD’s Patrick Cherry’s Apology? Full investigation needed first BLOG
- UPDATE–Kristof’s Facebook response to “Asian Advantage” critics is a semi-mea culpa BLOG
- Nick Kristof’s distasteful reframing of the model minority as “The Asian Advantage” in the New York Times BLOG
- Post-Selma rap lessons from “Fresh Off The Boat,” OU’s SAE, and President Obama BLOG
- Gay Manongs, the hard life of Larry Itliong, and the sexual fluidity of the first wave of Filipino Americans BLOG
- Why you should care that China covets your Spratlys BLOG
- Let’s end this civil war on affirmative action among Asian Americans BLOG
- Asian Americans will miss David Letterman BLOG
- New Year thoughts for NYPD’s Peter Liang, Montana’s Markus Kaarma, San Francisco’s Stephen Guillermo BLOG
- Why I write and go amok on behalf of Asian Americans everywhere BLOG
- Oscars? Here’s the Emil for Best Minimal Presence by an Asian American in a Best Picture nominee BLOG
- Vincent Wu’s birthday memories–jailed at Selma in 1965, worked security for MLK at the March finale BLOG
- Asian Americans No. 1 by 2065, but let’s celebrate the 50th anniversary of the end of racist quotas and “immigration interruptus” now BLOG
- Debate fearmongers should celebrate the end of the Chinese Exclusion Act and rethink politics of fear BLOG
- Asian Americans know why Obama gave the terrorism speech he did, as Trump fans the hysteria BLOG
- Wall Street Journal’s “chink in its armor” absolutely requires an apology BLOG
- Victory for same-sex marriage must lead to broader focus on LGBTQ discrimination BLOG
- Diversity at the movies? Was that Kiyoshi Kuromiya in a few frames of “Selma”? BLOG
- Asian American family not satisfied after Louisville prosecutor reprimanded for insensitive comments BLOG
- Ronald Ebens, Vincent Chin’s killer, denies financial windfall, debt to Chin estate in new interview BLOG
- Christmas horror at Miss Universe pageant or Trump campaign ploy? BLOG
- A whole lot of racial profiling going on–ask James Blake, Jeremy Lin, Xiaoxing Xi, Sherry Chen BLOG
- Rachel Dolezal, Dylann Roof, and Father’s Day BLOG
- Race Mixers Unite–Remember the Lovings, the Naims, and all the Asian bachelors past BLOG
2014
- Officer Darren Wilson’s words, and thoughts on Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and my cousin Stephen BLOG
- Emil Guillermo on PETA’s Virtual Reality: What’s good for chickens may be good for stopping racism BLOG
- In California, SCA 5 may be DOA due to Asian Americans against affirmative action BLOG
- American Filipinos, political polls, and “The Voice” BLOG
- “Saturday Night Live” TV ad parody on Asian American Doll is downright racist BLOG
- Sherpa solidarity–from Queens to Nepal–standing up to the legacy of the mountain BLOG
- Guillermo family and San Francisco District Attorney’s office meet for first time; #justiceforstephen continues BLOG
- An attack during the attack: An Asian American in Israel and his view on the Gaza war BLOG
- Easy answer to Fox’s “Chinaman” problem–Beckel begone; Why more than a half-hearted apology is needed BLOG
- Seahawks’ Richard Sherman offended by word “thug,” but Justin Bieber probably digs it BLOG
- Racism, Eric Garner, and that videotape BLOG
- President Obama’s immigration delay BLOG
- The Supreme Court ruling on Michigan’s Proposal 2 makes the fight for affirmative action harder BLOG
- From San Francisco to New York, FBI’s Leland Yee operation is a stinging “model minority” buster BLOG
- No “Asian American Privilege” here–Baseball stars Travis Ishikawa and Kolten Wong steal the stage in America’s national pastime BLOG
- Not My Father’s Horse Races BLOG
- Ferguson, the First Amendment, and the Asian American Journalists Association BLOG
- It’s Asian vs. Asian in California’s 17th C.D., but Mike Honda says “it’s not a civil war” BLOG
- The slow death of freedom, democracy, and journalism BLOG
- “12 Years a Slave” Worthy of Golden Globe–and Oscar Too? BLOG
- Happy Asian American Pacific Islander Month…and BTW, the race aspects of the murder of Vincent Chin are no urban myth BLOG
- On conformity, the Oscars, and a talk with “Jeopardy” hero Arthur Chu BLOG
- State of Asian America: Updates on beating victim Randy Gener, SNL, “yellow voice,” Bruno Mars, and more BLOG
- Slam dunk: The NBA’s fast break to racial justice on Donald Sterling BLOG
- Grace Lee Boggs coming to big screen near you? Let’s hope so. BLOG
- Elliot Rodger’s manifesto shows self-hate fueled anti-Asian violence that kicked off Isla Vista rampage BLOG
- On Obama’s bombing of Syria and our “non-war” war BLOG
- Standup Guy: Robin Williams was an honorary Filipino American, gone too soon BLOG
- Finally, the world notices Asian American Kenneth Bae–but it took a Dennis Rodman BLOG
- Amid the Super Bowl hype, Randy Gener’s story is more typical of the Asian American immigrant experience than you think BLOG
- Asian American Hustle? With CA Senator Leland Yee’s arrest, Asian American empowerment takes a hit BLOG
- On the Trans-Pacific surveillance of Filipino writer Carlos Bulosan BLOG
- In San Francisco, the murderer of Stephen Guillermo may be set free: #JusticeforStephen BLOG
- Remembering Vincent Chin: The Passion and Agony of a Community BLOG
- Executive action, immigration, and nostalgia for when government really did work BLOG
- On the importance of the unimportance of baseball and the San Francisco Giants BLOG
- Trudging on: The fight for Native American justice, The Slants, and Stephen Guillermo’s posthumous degree BLOG
- Jon Meis: The Asian American with pepper spray is the hero in the Seattle Pacific University shooting BLOG
- A stocking stuffer full of “Serial,” North Korea’s Sony hack, John Yoo’s torture memo, and Marcus Mariota for the holidays BLOG
- Glory and racism: Nixon’s audio clip on the Vietnam War BLOG
- Heather Marlowe and Emma Sulkowicz know rape is no joke, why don’t the Simpsons? BLOG
- On remembering Executive Order 9066, the Japanese American internment, and seeing “House of Cards” BLOG
- A little love for Shani Davis, Julie Chu, and J.R. Celski, Diversity’s Champs at the Winter Olympics in Sochi BLOG
- Instead of real immigration reform, we get a border crisis–made in the U.S.A. BLOG
- The Oscars, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and the Senate smear of Debo Adegbile BLOG
- After the 2014 midterms, the invisible Asian American voter unveiled BLOG
- #JusticeForStephen? The Guillermo family continues to hope BLOG
- Good Friday? Thank goodness Easter is just a rolling rock away BLOG
- Emil Guillermo on Labor Day, CNN, NPR, and a cross-country drive in the media BLOG
- More debate, not more bombs, needed 13 years after 9/11 BLOG
- Fighting the overwhelming images of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 BLOG
2013
- Asian Americans have a rooting interest in the Oscar race: Anupam Kher, Dr. Patel in Silver Linings Playbook BLOG
- Restoring Larry Itliong to his rightful place during Filipino American History Month BLOG
- Affirmative action alive and well–for now–as the Supreme Court throws Fisher back to the lower court BLOG
- Dream Day: The Martin Luther King Day and Inauguration Day Coincidence BLOG
- America’s Asian fetish frenzy: An Indian American wins Miss America and CBS’s Julie Chen reveals a different kind of affirmative action BLOG
- A few things I learned about us after Boston BLOG
- Yelling “stop deportations,” an undocumented Asian American stands up and Obama stands down BLOG
- Court victories bring out massive crowd of Asian Americans at San Francisco Pride BLOG
- One Asian American perspective on Zimmerman, Trayvon BLOG
- Fred T. Korematsu Day 2013: Imagining an Asian American Civil Rights Hall of Fame BLOG
- Far from classy: “Anchorman 2” didn’t need racist joke against Filipinos BLOG
- Forty days and counting, eyewitnesses talk of the aftermath of Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) BLOG
- No sympathy for racist Dukies, but some suggestions for frat parties at Duke BLOG
- New Asian American goal: putting the family back in the immigration bill BLOG
- The Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Decision: Three Scenarios BLOG
- KTVU’s Asiana Airlines Debacle: They fired some people, but you can’t fire racism BLOG
- Liberace: The Queer for Non-Queers BLOG
- What equality looks like: scenes from some historic Asian American weddings during San Francisco Pride BLOG
- Asian Americans not forgotten by Obama 50 years after March on Washington, Dr. King’s Speech BLOG
- IFC’s “Maron” dishes up pineapple slur: So is it hip to be sexist and racist? BLOG
- A hopeful State of the Union–upstaged by the manhunt for Christopher Dorner BLOG
- The 50th anniversary of the March on Washington: Why Asian Americans should be there marching, dreaming BLOG
- Immigration mark-up: Waving a fan to clear the stink of compromise BLOG
- Fast food for lunch? Join a one-day strike to say “No Wai” BLOG
- Nelson Mandela taught us how to fight for racial justice–and how to win BLOG
- Katy Perry’s fashion imperialism on the American Music Awards BLOG
- The national coming out party for same-sex marriage? BLOG
- Rush Limbaugh and the acceptance of low-level racism against Asian Americans BLOG
- Computer snafus abound–but let’s hope the website is the worst thing about the Affordable Care Act BLOG
- Wrong admissions notices sent to college applicants; Company says color-blind admissions influenced software BLOG
- Associated Press policy change on “illegal immigrant”: a harbinger for immigration changes to come? BLOG
- Get your FBI file this year–because you may have one, just like Filipino American author Carlos Bulosan BLOG
- Farewell 2013: To more amok moments in 2014 BLOG
- Thoughts on Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan), the Philippines, and Veterans Day BLOG
- Shutdown Government: American Democracy Is Breaking Bad BLOG
- The Squirmy “Truth”: Schwarzenegger, Lance Armstrong, an imagined Manti Te’o interview, and Obama II BLOG
- Conan and the Comedian-in-Chief in a night of acceptable truth-telling BLOG
- Larry Itliong Tapes II: How the Fil-Am labor leader didn’t sell out, and his comment on Cesar Chavez BLOG
- Redefining the victim: How colleges will soon justify affirmative action-for whites BLOG
- Racism: Milena Clarke’s old-fashioned experience vs. the new kind after the Asiana crash BLOG
- Snowden, the real patriot exposing the NSA and our virtual democracy BLOG
- Now that stop and frisk is unconstitutional in New York, will we start seeing whites profiled for a change? BLOG
- Fight discrimination or get plastic surgery? The eye-opening case of Julie Chen BLOG
- The Disappointing Deal That Avoids the Fiscal Cliff BLOG
- A Super Bowl with the lights on and the Asian American stereotypes in those commercials BLOG
- Let’s hope Saturday Night Live doesn’t laugh off its diversity problem BLOG
- White robe, black robe: What was Justice Scalia saying to us about voting rights? BLOG
- New York’s Soda Ban: When good ideas become bad laws BLOG
- The immigration distraction: IRS, AP, Benghazi scandals dominate news, but advocates remain optimistic BLOG
- Race conversation? After Asiana gaffe, new Asian American slur at CNBC–a CHITA problem BLOG
- Emmys stumble awkwardly: TV’s biggest night exposes showbiz racism, ageism BLOG
- It’s May and the fight for immigration reform is on BLOG
- Asian Americans Join the 50th Anniversary March on Washington BLOG
- With biker bullying of Asian American Alexian Lien and his family, have we entered into Vincent Chin territory? BLOG
2012
- Linsanity? Call it Linphomania. BLOG
- Saturday Night Regression: More Charlie Chan humor from SNL BLOG
- What America can learn from the San Francisco Giants BLOG
- Zakaria’s Soros interview: Thinking like a billionaire BLOG
- A Happy Thanksgiving Buffet: ‘The Hobbit’ story’s Deep Throat, Gallup’s concession, 80-20’s fundraising ploy, and Facing Race 2012 BLOG
- Linsanity is no reason to bring out the “C” word BLOG
- Romney’s taxes, self-deportation, and observations about Florida Debate I BLOG
- On Bruno Mars and SNL, Larry Itliong, and why I’m not watching the third debate BLOG
- Watching Oscar: Sacheen Littlefeather, we need you BLOG
- Diversity’s thunder shakes national politics, and Asian Americans played a role BLOG
- Is Fisher really the case to end affirmative action? BLOG
- The First Presidential Debate, Asian Americans, and Affirmative Action BLOG
- Gingrich Win is an Opening for – Santorum? BLOG
- Romney wins in the South–Pacific BLOG
- The High-Achiever’s Exit: A Veterans Day observation about our former top vet, soldier, and spy, General Petraeus BLOG
- Aurora suspect James Holmes at first sight, but will the feeling fade? BLOG
- The White Terrorist at the Sikh Temple BLOG
- The President’s Speech: Obama’s “New Deal”–America’s Basic Bargain BLOG
- My pre-Father’s Day Giant BLOG
- Immigrant go home? Gladly, sort of. BLOG
- No Model Minority: The Alienation of Oakland’s One L. Goh BLOG
- Santorum: The Tim Tebow of Politics, but Google Him First BLOG
- Newtown: A marker for how far we haven’t come in the gun control debate BLOG
- Linsanity, Ann Curry, and a New America Media award BLOG
- Romney? Obama? National Asian American Survey reveals the community’s evolving political mindset BLOG
- The war in Afghanistan, boot camp, and the Dream Act BLOG
- Fighting Barry’s Racist Eruption BLOG
- After the Ravi verdict, a need for compassion, clarity BLOG
- Ravi Sentence: Fair and Balanced? BLOG
- Disco-dancing toward the Fiscal Cliff BLOG
- Right-to-work for Christmas: The Labor Scrooge lives in Michigan and maybe in our communities BLOG
- Are Asian Americans really for the end of affirmative action? BLOG
- “Asian-spotting” the GOP convention: Elephants aplenty, but do Asian Americans show up? BLOG
- Gangnam-style: Of convention bounces, Psy hopping, and voter ID laws BLOG
- Leaping to Super Tuesday BLOG
- Racial profiling anyone? BLOG
- Tale of three shootings: Aurora, Sikh temple, Oikos–how it plays when victims are people of color BLOG
- That haunting photo of Ki Suk Han and the American condition BLOG
- Voting Asian American, Sandy, and how sports can matter in politics BLOG
- Asian vs. Asian: Why are some Asian Americans carrying Abby Fisher’s water in the affirmative action debate? BLOG
- Ronald Ebens, the man who killed Vincent Chin, apologizes 30 years later BLOG
- Bundle Up for Democracy, and for your Eggs Obama BLOG
- Last Fight for Manny Pacquiao? BLOG
- Affirmative action foes’ new tool: Asian Americans as the New Jews BLOG
- Bye-Bye Yahoo, Hello Jerry Yang 5.0? BLOG
- Unity 2012 and Affirmative Action BLOG
- Can we all get along? Recalling injustice from Rodney King to Vincent Chin BLOG
- Fiscal Cliff? “Freedom Cliff” Gives OK to a Little New Year’s Eavesdropping BLOG
- My first bully, Lady Gaga, and Rush Limbaugh BLOG
- New Field Poll in California says Asian Americans support the Affordable Care Act BLOG
- Eastwood’s chair: People of color as invisible as Obama at the Republican National Convention BLOG
- Sado-Capitalist Romney heads to the South BLOG
- Winning dirty in Florida and the fight goes on BLOG
- Obama’s Ohana and Our Umbrella Problem BLOG
- Diversity alive and well at DNC as Michelle Obama, Julian Castro star BLOG
- Giants may be hot, but the NYPD? Not. BLOG
- Obama’s Fair or Foul? BLOG
- Saving Justice Kennedy’s blind man and the Affordable Care Act BLOG
- With dog-eating joke, President Obama embraces his “Asian American-ness” BLOG
2011
- Emergency chute needed, even for Asian Americans BLOG
- Is America ready for its next revolution? Grace Lee Boggs thinks so BLOG
- UC Davis pepper spray incident boosts Occupy, restores faith in student protests BLOG
- It’s Brown in the Yellow State BLOG
- The Patron Saint of the Undocumented is an Asian American BLOG
- Yearning for a North Korean Spring? BLOG
- Ed Lee and Jerry Sandusky: one winner, one loser BLOG
- Missing the Boat on Limbaugh? BLOG
- Obama’s SOTUS: Just Enough To Keep Us Interested BLOG
- On union busting, nation busting, and the reverse immigration of retirees BLOG
- The last word on Tiger Mom: Hu? BLOG
- When the housing counselors go, the scammers come to prey BLOG
- Obama’s Crystal Clear Quagmire BLOG
- “Downgrade pain” courtesy of our political class BLOG
- The Koh-bama approach in Libya BLOG
- Scott Pelley, Anchorman BLOG
- On Firsting, APA Heritage Month, and “Paper Tigers” BLOG
- With Goodwin Liu, Asian Americans now the majority on California’s highest court-but is diversity the winner? BLOG
- Lowe’s hits new lows in corporate responsibility BLOG
- GOP’s Cover Wearing Thin on Its Distaste for Goodwin Liu BLOG
- Separate but equal: journalists of color run out of unity BLOG
- Taking the leap: the horror and the love of 9/11 BLOG
- Why President Obama shouldn’t give up on the Liu nomination BLOG
- Occupied or self-occupied? Thoughts on America’s anti-corporate protest BLOG
- When Democracy Meets Diversity BLOG
- Previously on CSI: Osama BLOG
- Does it really matter if San Francisco gets its first elected Asian American mayor? BLOG
- Why we all must remember Fred T. Korematsu BLOG
- It happened in Vegas: When Mitt puts his mitts on Perry BLOG
- Of white hoods, push-up bras and getting on your “ching-chong” BLOG
- Vargas, the Undocumented BLOG
- New York’s Same-Sex Victory Lifts the Parade BLOG
- Oakland on display: City pays price to occupy the First Amendment BLOG
- Deng’s Paw: Showing some claw in defense of her Murdoch BLOG
- Punk’d Exec No Reason to Defund NPR? BLOG
- Voting rights violations in San Francisco Mayoral election? BLOG
- Ed Lee’s Ranked Choice High in San Francisco BLOG
- Mayor Ed Lee flexes his muscle with useless crackdown on Occupy SF BLOG
- Affirmative action’s still kicking, but so is its nemesis, Ward Connerly BLOG
- San Francisco’s Political Gold Mountain BLOG
- Newt Gingrich and his grand immigration ploy BLOG
- The Diversity Deficit in Iowa and New Hampshire, Gingrich’s Pearl Harbor, and Danny Chen BLOG
- “Don’t ask, don’t tell” bad for the military, but good enough for civilian life-and “Anderson” BLOG
- Farewell to Tigger Wu BLOG
- The Republicans’ Perry problem and a new trend-Conservatives embrace illegal immigration BLOG
- Bad Deal, Still Bad Economy BLOG
- A bias toward hate crimes in Rutgers case? BLOG
- Gaming Democracy in San Francisco BLOG
- Shaq’s greatest slur and one more time for Goodwin BLOG
- Obama gets Osama: one less boogeyman, but will a new one emerge? BLOG
- My slant on The Slants and other Asian American “N” words BLOG
- Vincent Chin? Remembering Ronald Ebens-the guy who got away with murder BLOG
- David Chiu’s fundraising in New York? Of course, he is BLOG
2010
- Who’s Still Dreaming the Dream? BLOG
- On California, Nikki Haley and Identity Politics BLOG
- Hate Crime For Rutgers Outers? BLOG
- Undocumented to get “Bushwhacked”? BLOG
- Rendell’s comments far from innocent BLOG
- Asian American Tea Party? BLOG
- Legislation and Real Life BLOG
- SNL’s Hu Jintao a new “Charlie Chan-ism”? BLOG
- WikiLeaking on U.S. diplomatic efforts BLOG
- Since when did the “S” in TSA stand for “sex”? BLOG
- Tax-cut politics: “Robin Hood in Reverse” BLOG