For much needed contrast, after the sad spectacle of the Sunday presidential debate, I figured I needed some laughs.
So immediately after watching it streamed live on CBSN, I caught a performance by the former Saturday Night Live Weekend Update anchor Norm MacDonald, the last comedian to appear on
Today, you’ll learn more about Asian Americans and the presidential campaign from the just released 2016 National Asian American Survey than you will from that Veep debate last night.
Did you watch the Veep Debate–where the TV show “Veep” is better known than either Tim Kaine or Mike Pence?
It’s
As October begins, and Asian America’s more than 4 million Filipinos commemorate Filipino American History Month (as designated by the Filipino American National Historical Society), there’s a new twist in the U.S.-Philippines relationship.
The current Philippine president is a man who says publicl
I’ve had pneumonia before, and it knocked me on my butt for nearly two weeks.
So to see Hillary Clinton bounce back to continue her presidential campaign has earned her “Iron Woman” status in my eyes.
But I’ve seen her in action and bounce back all throughout her career. There was the stinging set
Producer/Writer Alan Yang had the answer to Asian American invisibility in all of Hollywood. And he said it on the Emmys telecast live before millions watching around the nation.
He had just won the comedy writing Emmy for co-authoring the “Parents” episode with comedian Aziz Ansari in the Netflix
Plains, Georgia…In the land of presidential peanut farmers, I found myself to be the only full-blooded Filipino in the room at Maranatha Baptist Church, the spiritual home base for No. 39, President Jimmy Carter.
And when the president looked into the pews and asked from where people hailed, I prou
On Sept. 7, there will be protests at every Philippine Embassy and consulate throughout the world, including New York and San Francisco, as part of a massive global demonstration against the proposed hero’s burial for the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
Will it match the kind of anti-Marcos fervor
I had never been to the Philippines ever, or since.
But I was there in the homeland of my parents on one of the most important days in the history of that country–Aug. 31, 1983.
As a young American Filipino reporter for the NBC affiliate in San Francisco, I had convinced my bosses that the death o
The Summer Olympics, the great quadrennial global escape, is over, and now we can all go back to worrying about Zika, Brazil’s impending impeachment of its President Dilma Rousseff, and the games’ biggest news story, American Ryan Lochte’s gold medal prevarication on vandalism, public urination and
The best thing about last weekend’s Asian American Journalists Association convention in Las Vegas wasn’t necessarily the Presidential Election Forum, co-presented with APIAVote.
Oh, yeah, President Bill Clinton showed up. He’s running for First Grandpa. More on him later in this column.
But no
Just when you thought it was bad enough he upset Filipinos worldwide–including the 4 million Asian Americans of Filipino descent in the U.S.–Donald Trump couldn’t leave well enough alone.
Or maybe to erase the memory of denigrating all Filipinos as terrorists in a previous news cycle, Trump felt he
On Friday, Hillary Clinton was at a joint meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists/National Association of Hispanic Journalists and mentioned a South Asian American, Khizr Khan.
The Constitution-toting Khan has become democracy’s “model minority supreme.”
The South Asian immigrant,
She’s not using the middle name anymore. Maybe that’s because it’s a new era. She’s her own woman now.
But Hillary always had me at Rodham. Her father, Hugh, was a Navy chief petty officer who became a salesman, then started his own drapery business out of Chicago. And on the Howell side, her mothe
Considering the evangelical tilt of the GOP, the only time Donald Trump came close to talking about God in his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention was when he talked about himself.
“I am your voice,” Trump declared to the American people.
If you ever wanted to speak in tongues,
Dr. Toribio Flores is an ear, nose, and throat guy at the Cleveland Clinic. And he’s going to the Republican Convention.
“I’m not afraid,” he tells me.
But I know most of America is.
We’ve arrived at the point many of us have been dreading. The GOP is all set to be re-branded Trump’s Old Party,
When Dallas happened, I was already upset by the shootings all over the world this summer, from Bangladesh to Baton Rouge and Minnesota. But I was in Berkeley, Calif., where I was hoping a little art would help.
Berkeley already puts me in another world. But I was in yet another subworld because I
I hope you have a bang up July Fourth.
Our country and the world could use a good explosive, safe, and sane display of freedom and liberty.
We’ve had too much of the opposite, the stifling, intimidating, freedom-robbing violence that puts all of us, and the world, on edge.
From Orlando, Florida,
With Orlando still fresh in the national consciousness, is there anyone who doesn’t know what constitutes a hate crime?
And yet, when it comes to Asian Americans, America has not always been sure.
That is one of the main lessons of the classic case of Vincent Chin, when the legal system stumbled b
Father’s Day is this weekend, so I’m thinking about my dad, again.
After all these years, and despite my own dear children, I still defer to my late father.
It’s still his day.
And now suddenly, thanks to Orlando and Donald Trump, it really does feel like the late 1920s and 1930s again in America
On the occurrence of the worst mass shooting and act of domestic terror in U.S. history, this is the kind of diversity we don’t like to talk about.
The perp is one of us.
The alleged shooter is 29-year-old Omar Siddiqui Mateen, born in New York to Afghani immigrants. Mateen’s an American of South
