My older Filipino American friends who fought and escaped martial law in their native land know it when they see it–democracy in turmoil.
Now it’s America’s turn.
Can our country survive the final weeks of the Trump stress test?
While hundreds die every day of Covid, our nation is dying political...
I was trying to drink up all the leftover vegan eggnog from the holiday parties I didn’t have, when, of course, Donald Trump signed the $900 billion pandemic relief bill.
Why? He’s setting us up for the real con.
You can’t be the hero of the pandemic you helped spread if you don’t pass out some mo...
When I talked about a pro-democracy movement in a recent column, that was no idle chit-chat. If you’re one of the nearly 160 million who voted in the last election, it’s time to protect your franchise and let people know that the votes have been counted. Now that the electors have certified the Bide...
After one memorable visit, I unabashedly love Hong Kong and still keep a watch on what’s happening there. But the story there is often overshadowed by the dual viruses affecting our world, Covid and Trump.
If you’ve wondered about the conservative response to the recent arrests of Hong Kong pro-dem...
History is always worth reading simply because you’ll never know the new things you’ll learn. Or the old beliefs you’ll have to revise.
That’s especially true with subjects you think you know so much about. And that might make you marvel at how miraculous it is that we can even have a coalition of ...
A Filipino American friend, an ardent Republican, posted online something about voter fraud and election theft. He’s one of the 30 percent of Asian Americans who are Trump supporters, and he was hopping mad.
He believes the election was stolen and he has proof! Information from a conservative websi...
Donald Trump has finally acknowledged the exit sign.
After nearly a month, reports say someone on his staff, plus other top Republicans, finally appealed to his vanity and convinced him that he was doing more harm to himself than to our democracy.
Always putting himself first, making Donald Trump ...
If you’re a DACA recipient or want to be one, thank goodness, there are people out there we can rely on for the truth.
Over the weekend, U.S. District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis in Brooklyn federal court ruled the Trump administration’s restrictions on DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) ...
It’s been a rough and tumultuous four years, accented by an Election Day that turned into a week.
But by noon Saturday ET, it was finally over—our long national “countmare.”
The media companies (I was watching CNN) prudently waited until there was no chance for a Trump electoral comeback. Philadel...
EMIL GUILLERMO: COUNT THEM ALL–THE PRESIDENT CAN’T DICTATE THE ELECTION
On Thursday, the biggest transgression against the election without a doubt came from the president of the United States, who insists on being the autocrat-in-chief.
Stop the count? That’s what dictators say. That’s not what t...
It used to be some people didn’t see themselves in our democracy. So they didn’t vote. They’d say, ”Why bother?”
We can’t say that any more. Bother now.
Especially if you’re part of America’s great diversity, say, an Asian American, or a person of color, or a working class person, or a woman, or a...
Leave it to Donald Trump to redefine all the political cliches about self-aggrandizing acts of governance.
Trump’s most shameless political stunt may have been the South Lawn celebration Monday night for the record-breaking Supreme Court confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett.
By a 52-48 vote, it was t...
America likes pills, especially a single pill that could solve all our problems. Like our presidency. That’s why we had to have one last debate. It’s the illusion we could get the whole schmear of a campaign in 90 minutes of muted real time.
And besides being the best moderated debate (the Presiden...
We Asian Americans are in excess of 20 million people. But do we count? Do we show up anywhere?
That’s our unique political conundrum. And it doesn’t matter if you’re newly arrived, or born here, or a multi-race Asian. Does it mean anything to be Asian American if we don’t show up?
I mean in polit...
Amy Coney Barrett is playing it safe, not saying a thing. Just trying to look above the fray, as a judge and mother of seven (including two adopted from Haiti), as the Senate Judiciary Committee considers her nomination as a Supreme Court justice.
She’s no Kavanaugh (and all that entails). But she’...
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For me tonight’s debate reminds me of a song from 1963. You know it when you hear it. And when you see it: “Just one look, that’s all it took.”
If Veep debates were so important, we’d still be quoting lines from that memorable Pence/Kaine debate four years ago.
We’re not.
But ...
In a tweeted video, the president said on Sunday, he “learned a lot about Covid.”
At least he didn’t call it the China Flu.
He didn’t acquire this wisdom on Zoom; he learned it while being a sick patient at Walter Reed Medical Center. “This is the real school,” said Trump. “This isn’t the ‘Let’s r...
Out in California, the fires were hotter than the presidential debate. People were evacuating their homes in Northern California’s wine country.
And what about the friends and family of the more than 200,000 Americans who have died of Covid? Or the 28,000 Disney workers who joined the nearly 30 mil...
Thanks to Judge Lucy Koh of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District in California, you may have more time to get counted in the 2020 Census, if you haven’t done so already.
On Friday, Judge Koh issued a preliminary injunction that bars the Trump administration from accelerating the Census...
There should be an Asian American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
But at least Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was there for us.
For anyone concerned with justice and equality, we were lucky that Ginsburg was the doorstop when others tried to shut us all out.
Born 87 years ago in Brooklyn, New Yor...
