The irony of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday on the eve of the start of an historic impeachment trial in the Senate, should remind you of the precariousness of our civil rights in America.
The man who should be removed from office, otherwise known as “Occupant 45,” is perhaps the biggest threat t
I admit on Tuesday I actually missed Andrew Yang.
That Iowa Democratic debate the other night was so frustrating if the only moment that got people excited and gained status as a “moment” was whether Bernie Sanders really said that a woman can’t win in 2020.
Sanders flatly denied saying it, despit
If you weren’t concerned about the world’s instability over the weekend, I don’t blame you.
Asian Americans and people of color in the U.S have more to fear than the retribution of Iran.
We need to fear the retribution from within our great nation–from people like Peggy Noonan, who is cheering on
The holiday lull is over when we go from “Jingle Bells” to “Jingo Bells.”
Donald Trump sure knows disruptive dissonance.
The impeached president is in Mar-a-Lago with his chums, playing the world, essentially by remote control with his tweets. And meanwhile, his military kills the Iranian General
If you read the blog posts here on AALDEF, then you have the unofficial history of the last ten years of Asian America through my amok lens.
Stuff happened. We had opinions. We weren’t silent.
When I started writing for AALDEF in 2010, I had already been writing my Amok column once a week on Asian
For Christmas, I saw Ali Wong’s panties.
I was in the balcony.
But she showed them to me–along with more than 3,000 other ticket holders at one of the 18 sold-out shows in her native San Francisco for the holidays.
Do the math. At an average of $50 a ticket, Ali Wong is making bank, as they say.
As you read this, Donald Trump is no longer merely POTUS. He’s been christened by the actions of our U.S. House of Representatives as TIP or T-I-P.
TIP? Yes, “The Impeached President.”
It hurts even saying the phrase.
There have only been three in the 243-year history of our country.
That’s noth
If you missed out or were disgusted by the impeachment hearings in the House Judiciary Committee last week, I don’t blame you.
I just hope you saw Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA).
Impeachment is a test of courage and conscience.
And for those lacking both, Jayapal was there to help.
From he
If you haven’t noticed, we’re having an historic battle in Congress over the future of our democracy.
So why aren’t we out in the streets like they are in Hong Kong?
In Hong Kong, an estimated million people yearning for democracy marched on Sunday to mark six months of protests. And it’s not just
I figured Kamala Harris would have a shot at regaining some campaign heat as a star at the coming impeachment trial. And yes, barring Trump pulling a Nixon and resigning in disgrace, there will be a Senate trial. After that new 300-page Intelligence Committee Report, with all those new phone calls a
First things first: Happy Thanksgiving, dear readers!
I am grateful and thankful for all of you, and will have you in mind with each bite of my humane tofu pot pie.
But for now, let’s go amok.
When you watch the impeachment inquiry hearings from Hawaii like I did recently, you know you are an una
Aloha!
I’m in Hawaii to give a speech on being a die-hard ethnic media journalist and a First Amendment Asian American (which one has to presume is better than being an Asian American forced to take the Fifth).
I’ve paid the price.
Which is why I’m shopping at the ABC store, where I found a uniqu
“Thank you for your service.”
If I had a dollar for every time I heard that on Veterans Day, I might be in the one percent (and I’d gladly pay Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax).
I personally stopped saying the phrase after I greeted a Filipino American friend of mine who served in the Air Force in Vi
As Dylan sang, “The times they are a-changin.” Is our Asian American stereotype?
In San Francisco, where about 30 percent of the city is Asian, we still mourn the passing of the city’s first Asian American mayor, the late Ed Lee–the community activist turned bureaucrat turned can-do civic cheerlead
The Washington Nationals—baseball’s new champs– will be parading in DC over the weekend, and I hope all the politicos in town will be there to remember what it was like to be on the same team.
Because the people in the nation’s capital have forgotten.
I used to live in the DC-area and except for t
The president is finding out that killing a global terrorist doesn’t necessarily make you a conquering hero.
So in his unique Trumpian form of humility, the prez tweeted out a picture of a real hero–the yet unnamed dog who was instrumental in last weekend’s raid and killing of Islamic State leader
In case you didn’t know, Asian Americans were among the lynched in the U.S.
And since October is Filipino American History Month, it’s worth noting that Filipinos in particular were targeted in California.
But first, it’s galling to find lynching back in the news just because the president of the
If Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren or anyone else wanted to make a splash at this week’s debate, they should have raised a more important issue than a national health plan.
A national diet is more like it.
And I don’t mean the Trumpian diet of Big Macs and Whoppers.
Sanders just had a heart at
The vast majority of Asian Americans live in California, so chances are, you know someone in the grips of what I’m calling “The Great Forced Blackout of October 2019.”
Starting today (Oct. 9, which, coincidentally, is my birthday) Pacific Gas and Electric has blown out my birthday candles, affectin
The decision by Federal Judge Allison Burroughs in the Harvard admissions case on Tuesday was just what we needed in this country.
It was a reminder that the process of achieving racial equity in admissions to Harvard is a step in the right direction, and that maintaining diversity is still the rig
