Other pundits and pontificators have their wish list about what President Trump should say in his State of the Union Address tonight.
As your humble Asian American amok scribe, I have a simple list of my own, which includes the same things everyone else wants to hear.
The truth would be a good sta
Fred Korematsu passed on in 2005, but he’s worth celebrating every year, especially this year on January 30, 100 years after his birth in Oakland, Calif.
You’ll recall Korematsu is the American who realized that his own government saw him as the enemy when it issued an executive order to incarcerat
If you haven’t heard, Kamala Harris is running for president.
This morning, she’s just a percentage point behind the leading Democrat, VP Joe Biden, when the latest Washington Post/ABC poll asked people who they would vote for today. And that includes Trump, who has just 4 percent. Biden leads with
No doubt, Trump isn’t draining the swamp. He’s demoralizing our country and diminishing our sense of democracy.
So long as we’re not in this thing together, we’re doomed.
My American Filipino friend, a furloughed federal worker, feels stuck.
He’s not making money. And he can’t do some of the work
If you haven’t seen the BuzzFeed story yet, a/k/a the most damning Trump revelation yet, here’s the gist: President Trump directed his attorney Michael Cohen to lie about a Moscow condo project prior to the 2016 election. That’s according to two unnamed federal law enforcement officials with knowled
Any federal workers out there? I’m sorry you don’t have a wall around the president to protect you from this new U.S. phenomenon: the payless pay period.
Zero point Zero-Zero is a triple-placeholder that does not compute as a fair wage for honest work.
I have two close friends in Washington who ar
Ken Jeong got all sorts of face time on NBC’s broadcast of the Golden Globes, but “Crazy Rich Asians” went empty handed and left the night Globeless.
This was one Golden Globes when it wasn’t about the winning. It was just being there and using the platform to be seen.
But Sandra Oh was like a tri
Is it so bad for anyone to use the angry but inelegant phrase “impeach the motherf*****,” when the guy you are referring to has a salty vocabulary to match?
Everyone can certainly recall before the November 2016 election when Donald Trump boasted about his treatment of women by using a now patented
As we enter 2019, we should be so lucky if we could extend and expand on the aura of “Crazy Rich Asians,” a film that helped balance the scales in pop culture and media in 2018. The film, which earned $174 million domestically ($238 million worldwide) was the Asian American story of the year.
That
When Donald Trump thinks “Asian,” what does he see in his heart and mind?
An immigrant waiter in Chinatown? With or without documents?
Senator Mazie Hirono? His cabinet member, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao?
Or is he thinking China’s president Xi Jinping?
With Trump, the self-described “T
Asian Americans may be more behind this federal government shutdown than you think.
If you’re one of the 1.8 million who were covered by President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, you’re a big reason we’re in this mess.
Yes, it is ironic that the man in Santa’s sleigh
So Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen gets three years and Michael Flynn will get sentenced this week. What should Trump get?
Oh, yes, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. He’s still just “Individual-1,” but there is so much out there, it’s hard to keep up with all the lies. Just ask Rudy Giuliani, charge
There is only one major question after Friday’s devastating memo dump.
Is it time to bring out the “I” word, in all its glory?
For Asian Americans, a key point person in the House of Representatives has been Congressman Ted Lieu from Los Angeles. I’ve followed him since his days as a California st
Earlier this year, Vogue’s Anna Wintour was called a “fur hag” by animal rights protestors in New York. But in any doting hagiography, Wintour would be hailed not as a “hag” but as a “saint.”
Of course, she’d have to die first.
I’m thinking about the term “hagiography” a lot lately because when so
A person I know, an Asian American, tried to commit suicide many years ago.
They called me up and we talked. They lived.
Now they are older and near dementia. But the memory of that critical moment when I kept them on the phone for hours is forgotten.
Even without their current circumstances, the
We should have expected the skirmishes on the southern border that occurred over the weekend. When Donald Trump sends military force to the border, you are relieved that all you hear about is tear gas. But you’re dismayed because there’s no good reason the situation couldn’t have been handled more p
Asian Americans who lived in San Francisco will remember Herb Caen, the columnist who made his use of the ellipsis legendary in his creation of three-dot journalism…So I’m in that state of mind… Right now… Three dots it is, demarcations of thoughts and items in a vertical space, a column (oh, let’s
On the day after one of the biggest turnouts ever for a U.S. midterm election, the president of the United States won’t let reality spoil his view of life through Trump-colored glasses.
2018 midterms? Why, they were a “tremendous success,” according to a succinct Trump tweet.
But then he gave a ne
This is the most racially charged election I’ve experienced in nearly a generation.
It was 1994—24 years ago– that California voted overwhelmingly for Prop.187, a ballot initiative to deny public services to the undocumented. The law was later ruled unconstitutional. But it proved that even in the
(CAMBRIDGE, MASS)–I got back from a vacation just in time for the pipe bombs and attempted assassination attempts on two former presidents, among other prominent outspoken people, and a major media organization.
It’s the reason I took a vacation in the first place–to get away from the nasty hot rhe
