If you still haven’t heard the story of Srinivas Kuchibhotla, don’t worry.
It’s unclear if even Donald Trump knows, remembers, or cares. Sort of like his health care promises.
In his joint address before Congress, the MCOWH (man currently occupying the White House, in case he is still #NotMyPresid...
In our podcast Emil Amok’s Takeout, I list off the key points about Travel Ban 2.0.
Six out of the seven original countries are involved: Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. Only extensive lobbying got Iraq taken off.
There are also exceptions made for green card and visa holders, as we...
The media, wanting so desperately to say something nice about Donald Trump, seemed to go out of their way to praise the president for his performance before a joint session of Congress last week.
Trump seemed to find the right key to being presidential. Like maybe he finally gets it?
Nyet.
The pr...
If you’re Asian American, you may have your head down and not be paying attention to all the new proposals on immigration and border security.
But a new proposal could impact Asian Americans and their families and friends.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has proposed this idea: to col...
This is Oscar Weekend, a time when we’re supposed to escape the humdrum of everyday life for the uplifting fantasies of movie-dom.
And then everything changed, when real life turned into “Trump, the presidency.”
I even liked the most popular movie of 2016, “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” mostly fo...
February 19 is the 75th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin Roosevelt. It was the start of a nightmare for Japanese Americans who were rounded up and placed in internment camps during World War II. How did it happen? And could it happen again to another group?
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The man who should be called Twitter Trump, the current White House resident, recently learned a lesson when he found out federal district judges are more than “so-called judges.”
And those 9th Circuit appeals court judges, they’re no pushovers either.
They know an abuse of power when they see one...
It was around half-time of what would turn out to be one of the greatest Super Bowls ever. The Atlanta Falcons were handily beating the New England Patriots 21-3, and everyone thought it was over. (It wasn’t.) And then Lady Gaga flew in on a wire to bring things to life, singing, among other things,...
UNSTRANDED: Eman Ali, 12, and her father Ahmed, sat before media at San Francisco International Airport on Super Bowl Sunday. They are among the first to travel to America after the travel restrictions from seven predominantly Muslim nations were lifted on Friday. Ahmed Ali is a Yemeni American, b...
January 30th is the birthday of a true Asian American hero, Fred Korematsu.
Since 2011, it’s been a designated holiday in California and a few other states. It doesn’t get you a day off. In fact, it’s a day that reminds you to fight.
It’s a a day set aside specifically to remind us that when it ...
It’s been just a week, and Donald Trump’s use of executive orders, even when the GOP has full control of both the House and Senate, is the clear sign of an insecure authoritarian comfortable with bypassing democracy.
It’s also a showboat move from the reality star. With a single stroke, he creates ...
Rep. Judy Chu (CA-27), chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, isn’t at the Trump inaugural. In my phone conversation with her, Chu said Trump’s attack on civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis was the last straw.
But it’s not the only thing that makes her doubt Trump’s fitness for t...
The transition I call the “Trump Creep,” aptly describing the process and the man, is about to end. The inaugural is here and now the show really begins.
For some, these days since Nov. 8 have been like the “Twilight Zone.”
But just wait.
We ain’t seen nothing yet.
The man who likes his politics...
Presidential historians will note this was the week the words “Trump,” “prostitutes,” and “urination” somehow found themselves used publicly in the same sentence.
While the implied acts in the sentence aren’t verifiable, the words are, and they appear in the dossier U.S. intelligence chiefs present...
As Congress got back into action last week, there was one clear-cut enemy to the American public, but it wasn’t Vladimir Putin.
For some reason, Trump and the GOP love Putin.
But this thing called Obamacare, also known as the Affordable Care Act, Trump and his ilk uniformly hate with a passion.
A...
Where do you stand politically on anything in 2017? Judging from the first days, no one knows for sure, not even the professional pols.
If you’ve been following what a Trump World would be like, we all got a taste of how chaotic politics will be as we witnessed the quick about-face of Republicans w...
As we end the year and prepare for the dreaded 2017, I must thank you for reading my weekly musings on the pressing Asian American issues of the day.
Based on your clicks, the election and general representation issues were among the most-read columns of the year.
Leading the way was a piece on Be...
With the inaugural in less than a month, and Christmas just days away, this is a special year.
Despair looms ahead.
And that requires a special holiday treat.
In the spirit of solidarity, I feel compelled to offer you the gift of perspective!
Look at it this way. What’s before us won’t be all th...
If you don’t have enough to argue about during the holidays with your family and friends (I mean, the Trump thing might get old before the inaugural), maybe it’s time after Pearl Harbor Day to dredge up the controversy over “Allegiance.”
Just a musical? Or a dangerous revision of history?
George T...
This year on the day before Pearl Harbor Day, President Obama, said in his final address on national security that terrorists can kill innocent people, “but they don’t pose an existential threat to our nation.”
He wasn’t talking Jean-Paul Sartre.
Before Trump-Think becomes official, the outgoing p...
