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
For Asian Americans, polls are a vast wasteland where we don’t exist. Mainstream exit polls that dare mention Asian Americans are unreliable. Which is why my favorite of all polls are the AALDEF exit polls (coming up in November), in language, on the spot talking to real people about what they just
I’d like to take a deep breath and consider what I’m hearing in the news, but I’m in California.
In our most Asian American state, no matter where you are, you can’t escape all the fire and the flames. It’s sort of like news on the latest Trump outrage. Smoke drifts in and discolors everything, tur
With Labor Day coming up, here’s a perennial question that must be asked again and again at this time every year until everyone gets it right.
Can you name a great Asian American labor leader who’s a household name or should be?
Perhaps a name equal to Cesar Chavez?
If an answer doesn’t roll off
Did you stay to the very end of the bizarre Trumpian cavalcade of mistruths, a/k/a/ The Donald’s acceptance speech at the Covid-compromised Republican National Convention?
If not, you likely missed the part of the RNC that was the most Asian American.
Mind you, this was not a GOP convention the li
The latest survey from AAPI Data may show Asian Americans backing Biden by 59 percent, but take away the undecideds and nearly 1 in 3 of us still support Trump. Thirty-three percent is a pretty big number, one that rivals Hispanics for Trumpiest people of color in the country.
Based on the ethnic b
When Day 4 of the Democratic National Convention was over, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris stood with their spouses on an outdoor stage in Wilmington, Delaware and watched the fireworks burst skyward. I’d expect the convention bounce poll numbers to boom similarly.
The candidates deserved the fireworks
As a journalist in both the mainstream and ethnic media, I’ve covered diversity in America before anyone knew what to call it.
There’s never been a night quite like Wednesday in American political history.
Barack Obama, America’s first Black, multiracial president, quietly ripped apart Donald Trum
