America is trying to let the three most publicized shooting incidents of the last week fade away.
We can’t afford to let that happen again. Not after Newtown. Orlando. Las Vegas. Not to mention Christchurch, New Zealand. Have you forgotten all those?
The Buffalo supermarket shooting was like an ec...
Ten African American people in Buffalo shot dead on Saturday in a shocking racist killing. It was a headline the country didn’t need. We have too many of them already.
Surely, Asian Americans know the violence all too well.
May has been one violent Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander H...
If you think democracy is getting tarnished in America, you could be a dual citizen of the U.S. and the Philippines. And then you’d be feeling twice as bad today.
Monday, May 9 is election day in the Philippines.
And it looks like the U.S.’s first colony–which ultimately was modeled to be our demo...
I wasn’t thinking about Norm on the first week of what he first coined as Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
On my “micro” news/talk show on the web, I was prepared on Tuesday to talk about the Supreme Court leak of the draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to choose.
Did y...
Let me be the first to welcome you to May, Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, our month in the nation’s diversity calendar.
It begins as we all wait to see if anyone famous/important tests positive for Covid after the weekend’s 3,000 person indoor celebration of free-speech and normalc...
When an Asian American politician accuses an opponent of racism, that’s usually worth a mention.
But it’s worth a double take when the accusation is made by one Asian American against another.
Asian vs. Asian racism? That’s the issue in California, and it’s a situation the entire AAPI community sh...
On the week of Earth Day, there was a tornado warning in California’s Central Valley.
A tornado warning in the middle of the farmlands where many of our Chinese, Japanese and Filipino ancestors worked in the 1860s, the 1930s, and the 1940s.
In 2022 there is a tornado warning.
That should be enoug...
The day after Easter and a wet egg roll at the White House is the least of Asian Americans’ worries.
Not when a good person is getting rolled in California politics in a raging case of ageism.
Politics is getting nasty in the most populous Asian American state in the nation, with unidentified sour...
Of course, Bucha and the atrocities committed by Russia in Ukraine must hold the focus of the free world. We can only interrupt our attention on life and death history with even more history.
And so we do, to cheer a momentous breakthrough for democracy in America.
Ketanji Brown Jackson is the new...
This weekend, you could have been celebrating as one of the lucky 3.19 percent to get into Harvard’s incoming freshman Class of 2026.
It’s the lowest acceptance rate ever, which means that of 61,220 people who applied, 1,954 students made the grade. Lucky you?
Or were you in the other pile of 59,2...
In anticipation of the Supreme Court review of a lawsuit that claims Harvard’s race-conscious admissions discriminates against Asian American applicants, Harvard College has unveiled a fall class that is 80 percent Asian.
“If the University of California can have 40 and 50 percent Asians at some of...
We were all watching the Oscars when Will Smith’s open hand struck Chris Rock. You know Rock felt it.
But I did too. We all did. It wasn’t fake. It was real.
Any Asian American who has lived through the last two years of hate and violence had to flinch. These days, we know about violence in Americ...
Ketanji Brown Jackson should be the next Supreme Court Justice of the United States.
Just start calling her KBJ now.
She’s been called, by virtue of her legal experience, the most qualified nominee for the Supreme Court in history. But, of course, she would have to be. People of color always have ...
In more than twenty years, Asian Americans have gone from chanting “I am not a spy” to “I am not a virus.”
We may have to go back to the old phrase.
These are the time-honored battle cries used to call out the racist hate we’ve experienced when U.S. nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee was falsely accused...
Asian American? I feel like a Ukrainian today.
I just saw President Volodymyr Zelensky’s speech to Congress. Don’t just watch the clips and soundbites. Get it all. See the video that it includes. If you’ve followed the war on the news, the images will be familiar. They are part of our lives. The wa...
Evil.
We’ve born witness to it these past few weeks.
Russia denies it, but we can see for ourselves.
A maternity hospital shelled. Nuclear power plants attacked. Residential neighborhoods targeted. Innocent civilians killed. Before our eyes, we see Russia’s war in Ukraine unfold. Russia’s lies ab...
Nuclear power plants usually mean clean energy. Unless there’s an accident like Chernobyl. Or an attack on a power plant by a madman like we saw last night in Ukraine. Russia has turned a peaceful energy source into a de facto nuclear weapon.
And that’s where we are with Russia’s war on Ukraine.
S...
State of the Union? As I like to ask in my talk show, “What would an Asian American think?” Let me also give a SOTU response through a generic, homogenized American lens. And more relevantly, let me respond as if I were wearing the earbuds of a Putin or a Zelensky.
“Folks,” (as Joe Biden would say)...
The State of the World and the State of our Union both came into view for what was an historic coincidence last Friday, February 25th.
From Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the War in Ukraine, this is a snapshot of where we are in 2022.
Connected.
The world woke up last week to the invasion of Ukra...
The Winter Olympic games have ended, and now the real geopolitical games have begun with the U.S. and its allies trying hard not to go down the treacherous slopes of war.
And so we ask, will Ukraine become the new Uyghurs?
You’ll recall the Uyghur Muslim minority–silenced, reeducated and repressed...
