Why standing up against Nazis matters
Newnan is a small Georgia town with just 38,000 people. I know only two things about Newnan: a few of my friends from college called it home, and I pass it on my way to visit my mother. Newnan...
Category: North America
What went wrong with Universal FanCon?
The infamous Universal FanCon is in the books, but the event is not going down in history as the co-founders had hoped. As can be gleamed from the hashtags and social media chatter, the event...
How men like Fred Rogers saved television, and civility
49 years ago, Mr. Rogers saved the neighborhood. On May 1, 1969, Fred Rogers stood before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Communication and defended the value of his show, public television, and...
Asians, We’re Just Like You…Or Not At All: Roseanne, The Simpsons, and AAPIs on TV
I was recently approached to work on a script. At first I was pretty excited about it. It was the brainchild of someone I’d worked with before, someone I liked and had worked well with on previous...
#WednesdayWisdom: The real truth about the Deep State
The Deep State really screwed me over today. First it was the weird weather — too cold in the shade, too hot in the sun, so that I kept having to take my scarf out of my bag and put it on and then...
Is there a corporate case for health care?
Jonathan Oberlander wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine that a Medicare for All healthcare proposal would generate “fierce resistance from conservatives and the business community.”...
AAPI Women in History: Dr. Kalpana Chawla
Kalpana Chawla was born into a culture that didn’t necessarily share the big plans she had for herself. Born in Karnal, India in 1961, the youngest of four, a future as wife and mother was expected...
AAPI Women in History: Victoria Manalo Draves
Filipino-Americans have often been called the “invisible minority”. Despite being the second largest Asian-American community in America – and the first Asians to come to America in 1587 –...
AAPI Women in History: China Mary
During the Chinese Exclusion era, Chinese men were often called “John” and women called “Mary”. In the time when America outlawed the immigration of Chinese laborers, between 1882 and 1943,...
Roy Moore needs some cash. I have an idea he might like
The degree to which the American right espouses an attitude of "I'm alright, Jack" is pretty shocking to outsiders, especially given that the biblical Jesus they profess to follow was all about...