To many people hearing the term, "model minority" sounds like a good thing. Why wouldn't you want to be the "model", the "best", the example that inspires others? If you are in the majority, it can...
If you are, for some reason, not a fan of American exceptionalism, you ought to be a fan of Louise Linton. Who else is there to make Central Asian dictator clans finally feel that they are not unique...
American exceptionalism — the idea that the United States is unique among all other nations — gets a bad rap nowadays. Ever since we elected a sentient wig to the White House (where else would...
Come February, Janet Yellen will not be returning as Chair of the Federal Reserve. That title will belong to monetary moderate Jerome Powell, who was recently chosen by Donald Trump to replace...
For President Donald Trump and President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, their recent meeting couldn’t have gone better. Egos were stroked, there was no talk of those pesky “human rights”...
The year since Trump was elected has been an important year to be an Asian-American or Pacific Islander. It’s been a frustrating year. It’s been an inspiring year. At times it’s been a...
People are running around and screaming about the widening gap between the rich and poor, as if the country is about to fall into that gap and disappear. What they’re not taking into account is...
George W. Bush is like America’s wacky sitcom uncle and I’m tired of it. I think you should be, too. To be fair, I don’t think too many people are giving the former president a complete pass. I...
On Monday, the first in what are likely to be a series of indictments naming Trump cronies came down, sweeping up Paul Manafort and his former business partner, Richard Gates. The 31-page document...
“No. Absolutely not. You cannot move into that apartment. Do you know how much I’ll worry about you if you do? Absolutely not.” Standing on a street corner in Brooklyn, in front of a bank I was...
