If you turned on “60 Minutes” last Sunday expecting a Middle East lead report, you didn’t really get one.
Instead, Asian Americans, especially Chinese Americans, got a wakeup call from the FBI.
The first story barely touched on the crises in the Middle East. It featured FBI director Christopher Wr...
I saw all sorts of banners when I was travelling this weekend for Hispanic Heritage Month.
None for Filipino American History Month.
But when we pass Oct. 15, Hispanic Heritage Month, which started Sept.15, officially ends, and the rest of October is now solely dedicated to Filipino American histo...
It’s my birthday today. I am 118.
No lie.
I won’t take a day off for Columbus, but I’ll take a day off for me. And my father.
If age is just a number, I had long reached an age where I just stopped counting.
But now I’m into counting each and every year. With honor.
It hit me while preparing fo...
October is Filipino American History Month, but why does it seem different this year?
Maybe it’s because Filipino history appears to be reverberating in real time in the U.S.–a harbinger of what could happen in our very own country.
The Philippines–America’s first colony that was transformed into ...
A friend of mine who writes for The New York Times recently called me “cynical but insightful.” I took it as a compliment, though I’d rather be known as trusting, loving, caring, and giving, of course.
But cynicism is probably the best lens in which to view the announcement of the new U.S. Senator ...
I will bet anything that this question did not come up in the second Republican presidential debate at the Reagan Library.
Should Harvard keep a $2 million gift to fund its first-ever Tagalog language course from the family of Imelda Marcos? Is it clean money? Or just clean enough? Was it among the...
“Here Lies Love,” the new Broadway musical, plays into the seduction of the notorious Marcos family of the Philippines. That’s what we all care about, isn’t it?
Would there be any interest in Filipinos at all were it not for the Marcos’ domination in Filipino and Filipino American history?
The sho...
I was feeling sad on Monday. After all, it was 9/11. I was in New York. I was dreading it. What do I do to honor the day?
I’ll never forget where I was in 2001. In the San Francisco Bay Area, I was thinking about trading the markets, so I was up way early with CNBC at 5.46 a.m. Pacific time when th...
Are you ready to kill the colonizer?
You can on Oct. 2 from just about any AMC theater in the country.
If you’re Asian American of any stripe, but especially Filipino, you can get the thrill of seeing a Hollywood movie that gets it right.
One with the narrative where we win. And the colonizer los...
What? You working on Labor Day weekend?Well, yes. On the weekend that Jimmy Buffett died, we must be mindful that he was no Margaritaville slacker. He made hundreds of millions of dollars selling the fantasy of not working hard. He worked plenty hard, albeit in flip-flops.
Or you just do what you l...
A graduate student shooting his professor is not model minority behavior.
But given the proliferation of gun violence in America, maybe it is.
Tailei Qi, 34, a graduate student from China attending the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, was charged with first degree murder in the killing of...
It’s been a historic week in America. After a presidential debate featuring eight Republicans who couldn’t get arrested, we now have one Republican who can. Get arrested, that is. Four times.
He’s the Notorious DJT.
And in our strange twisted democracy, a tremendous number of Republicans still can...
Broadway loves “Here Lies Love,” the musical about the Marcos dictatorship.
But as audiences leave, I hope they understand what happened forty years ago.
On Aug. 21, 1983, Benigno (Ninoy) Aquino, the Philippine political activist in exile in the U.S., went home to win back freedom for Filipinos li...
I’ve read over the latest indictment on the disgraced former president who wants to be president again. Don’t get inured to the shock of it. That’s the real threat to democracy. And yet we also must understand No. 45 is innocent until proven guilty and will no doubt say that his tweets, his misstate...
My father, a fry cook most of his life in union restaurants in San Francisco, didn’t have much. But he had the right to vote.
After coming here as a colonized Filipino barred from voting, he managed to become a U.S. citizen later in life, which earned him the only real opportunity he had in this co...
If you think I mention Harvard a lot, please forgive me.
I did wait until the sixth word in this piece.
This restraint may not be much compared to those (mostly white) who incessantly debate, “When do I drop the H-bomb?” as a social calculation so as not to alarm people they are in the presence of...
If we apply the Florida educational standards of history to Filipino history, I suppose there would be a “positive benefit” of the Marcos dictatorship—the authoritarian singing and the dancing of the Marcoses themselves!
But wait a minute, the history of a Filipino dictatorship funded and propped u...
Last week, when the big news was inflation’s drop to three percent (the target was two percent), some observers wondered why people seemed underwhelmed.
Maybe it’s because our happiness is connected to more than just the price of gas and eggs.
But how can you cheer for an improving economy when yo...
The AAPI person of the moment, Waltine “Walt” Nauta, had his day in court Thursday, and he wasn’t really lawyered up.
And that’s why even though his name is emblazoned on page one of the historic first federal criminal prosecution of a former president, Nauta may as well be “nada.”
I prefer to giv...
I’ve always talked about race. And now, I’m upping the volume. The Supreme Court made me do it. The six conservatives may have on their race blindfolds (the ones they want everyone to wear).
But they don’t have earplugs.
If you were bashful before, don’t be. It’s time for all of us to tell our sto...
