Category: Candid Perspectives
The State of the Nation Address? The Philippines Isn’t Foreign When Your Family Still Lives There
We aren’t totally divorced from the ancestral homeland.
The Next 250? How About We Just Get To The Midterms
by Emil Guillermo It was typical Trump-style. The president’s July Fourth speech was a “flood the zone” mess. Veterans and patriotic sentiment, mixed in with [Read More…]
On Voting Rights, Identity Politics, And the State of Asian America
by Emil GuillermoOn the first Saturday of Asian American, Pacific Islander, and Native Hawaiian Heritage Month, Saturday Night Live featured the Filipino American pop star [Read More…]
The Most Powerful American In The World Is A Man Of Peace, Not War
The most powerful American right now is Robert Prevost of Chicago, also known as Pope Leo.
Olympic Lessons On The Final Day—Of Hockey, Obligation, And Eileen Gu
You don’t throw a tantrum at the world or say the contest was rigged. Are you listening Mr. President?
From DC to Davos to Minnesota—How Fear Became American Foreign and Domestic Policy
by Emil GuillermoThe world feels upside down. Donald Trump recently bragged that he did not take Greenland by force. That’s the bar now—an American president [Read More…]
As Trump Rages Against Immigration, I Mourn The Perfect Immigrant
Here comes ethnic purity 2.0, American-style. That is unless we are loud and persuade the public that Trump-style racist is plain un-American.
East Wing Demolition Man Trump Turns Filipino Just In Time For His Asian Trip
The East Wing demolition was more like “total and complete” obliteration, Trump’s favorite word after last summer’s big surprise when the U.S. bombed Iran.
Shutdown Comedy? We’re In The King Zone
The October shutdown of the U.S. government is a joke.
