By Angela Li
Summer in New York City is an incomparable experience. The parks are verdant and filled with laughter; the streets are alive with pop-up events, outdoor cafe tables, and people from all walks of life. This summer, I’ve embarked on adventures around AALDEF’s office nearly every day afte
By Stuart J. Sia
Last Wednesday, CNN’s Jake Tapper reported on journalist Catherine Herridge, the Fox News journalist who is appealing a court ruling holding her in contempt for refusing to reveal her source on a story.
Herridge’s appeal is the latest development in a case that the Asian American
Kamala Harris took a night to sleep on it. But she knew what to do.
And it comes just one week after Donald Trump–the twice impeached, 34-times convicted former president who has been found liable for sexual assault–inserted race into the campaign.
You’ll recall at a convention of the National Ass
Not Black enough? Not Asian enough? I’ve always wondered why Kamala Harris didn’t give her Asian-ness equal billing.
But now, thanks to an angry Donald Trump, none of us will ever forget the day that Trump made race and identity politics the seminal issue in the 2024 campaign.
Inflation? The econo
By Catherine Ho
As the daughter of Vietnamese refugees, my childhood was filled with international time zone calculations and the familiar routine of punching in a string of numbers from a calling card to chat with our loved ones. Much rarer were the celebrations of aunts and uncles finally being a
If you thought the dismantling of DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) programs in higher ed and corporate America meant diversity as a value in America was dead, think again.
Kamala (as Harris says, “rhymes with mama-la”) just woke America back up using skills we all learned from the pandemic.
T
By Annie Lo
A recent summer day in Manhattan’s Chinatown naturally led me to Columbus Park, where lush trees shade the benches lining one of the neighborhood’s few parks. I sat and ate my baozi as a pickup soccer game fanned out across the playing field in front of me. But despite the peaceful atmo
By Ronak Patel
A week cannot go by without a headline reporting a new attack on our multiracial democracy. Politicians seeking personal and partisan advantage, aided by shadowy donor networks, have waged a ceaseless two front war against minority voting rights, chipping away at the Voting Rights Ac
Joe Biden, still isolated with Covid, spoke via speaker phone to his campaign staff early Monday evening to tell them the truth behind his big decision.
“I know it’s hard because you’ve poured your heart and soul into me,” Biden told the campaigners who won him the nomination and then the presidenc
You can stop praying for Donald Trump.
Since at least a third of all Asian American voters said they would vote for Trump, according to a recent Asian American national survey, I’m sure there were at least some Asian American Filipino Catholics saying an extra rosary since last Saturday.
Well, you
I confess my optimism that all the calls for unity after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump could end the polarization that has crippled our nation’s politics for years.
And then I saw the first three days of the Republican National Convention, where Asian Americans were essentially… invisib
Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pa., is the man the FBI has identified as the shooter at the Butler, Pa. Trump rally, in what law enforcement is calling an “assassination attempt.”
Some news organizations will choose not to say the name of the rally shooter, thinking that doing so would
As Joe Biden in fine fettle would say, “Look folks, we have reached an inflection point…”
But what kind of fettle is Biden in today? Aging for sure, but it’s not a crime to grow old in America.
If we apply the president’s favorite rhetorical metaphor to his current crisis, is the geometric curve
As the nation and Joe Biden ponder whether he is too old for a second term as president, I contemplate the birthday of one of the most influential persons in my life.
Flossie Lewis is 100 this week.
Flossie is older than Joe Biden, but not too old to still be my teacher, my friend, and the Jewish
As we approach the 248th birthday of our country on July 4th, consider that at no time in our history-- from the founders to modern times—has anyone ever thought it necessary to do what happened Monday.
The Supreme Court just turned our constitution upside down and made the president a “demi-king.”
The earliest presidential debate in U.S. history was supposed to shake up the race and reset the campaign for the president with a 38 percent approval rating.
Instead, we are left wondering who has the tougher choice—voters or Joe Biden. Four more years--is he able?
It was not a good debate for th
Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, a young pioneering Asian American politico, must be wondering how a convicted felon with 34 guilty verdicts can be riding high, while an uncharged Thao fights for her political life.
That’s how strange politics is in America today.
On the national stage, President Joe Bid
Asian Americans, especially Filipinos whose primary family members came to this country as colonized nationals to work the fields in California, identify with the African Americans in Texas in 1865. The Texans lived as slaves for two years longer than they had to, even though everywhere else black m
On Father’s Day, how many times did you tell your dad that his wish was your command?
I know, it can get old fast. But it’s just for a day. And Dad has earned it.
Too bad it doesn’t work that way with another upcoming holiday, this week’s Juneteenth (June 19th).
Descendants of slaves don’t get to
In 1989, I was the host of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” where, incidentally, I was also the first Asian American male to host a national news show.
During my brief tenure, I’d say maybe the best story I ever told while I had that opportunity was to tell my father’s story in an audio essay.
It is
