Here Comes The Jeremy Lin Show

It looks like I was a little early to jump ...

Mao's Last Dancer Satisfies Asian American Audiences

The movie version of Mao's Last Dancer deserves our admiration ...

An Asian American Thanksgiving

We have a long weekend to stuff ourselves and sit ...

Uncovering the X Factors Behind Insomnia

We all know that coffee compromises sleep. Yet some of ...

Why I Love Los Angeles

I absolutely love Los Angeles. After traveling more than I ...

Handling Incidents of Suspected Racial Bigotry

The smart way to address offenses that may have been ...

The Asian American Identity in the Jeremy Lin Era

Jeremy Lin's leadership of the Knicks is a metaphor for ...

Why Jeremy Lin Matters So Much to Asian Americans

That a guy who can shoot, sky and scrap like ...

American Democracy and the Tyranny of Old Prejudices

Little Emperor Syndrome and China's Me Generation

A recent encounter with a group of young Chinese tourists ...

Jeremy Lin Stars in NBA's Biggest Morality Play

Jeremy Lin appears destined to become the star of the ...

Eating, Sleeping and Alkalizing for pH Balance

"I don't know if I'm hungry or just tired." That's ...

A Mechanism to Break Federal Budget Deadlocks

The current debt-ceiling deadlock cries out for a mechanism to ...

Asian Las Vegas Pilgrimage

How many times have I vowed never to return to ...

Revisiting My Childhood : A Weekender Back East

I'm sitting here in the basement of my childhood at ...

Remembering Christmas After a Breakup

Breakups hurt. It’s been well-documented. And sadly, all the clichés ...

The Rise of China's Workers Change Worldviews

China's workers are moving swiftly toward a new, higher place ...

Obama's Clarity Wins the Day — Again

Bad leadership panders to confusion and creates more. Good leadership ...

One-Day Journey from Ravaged to Recharged

It takes only a day of discipline to restore body ...

Dear Will Smith

At age 10, most girls had just graduated Barbie and ...

Drawing Life's Key Lesson from Into The Wild

A couple friends and I have gotten together on a ...

Asian Men and Interracial Dating

When I see an Asian man with a non-Asian woman, ...

The U.S. Open and Asian Tennis Parents

Thanks to a nightmare rain delay and my preference for ...

Connecting with Other Asian Americans

Once you learn to appreciate yourself in all your Asian ...

9/11 Shows Need for More Social Intelligence

Adding to our social intelligence assets overseas may prove a ...

Blaming Technology for Job Losses

Blaming technology for joblessness ignores the fact that innovation has ...

Change That Means Something to Real Americans

Last Saturday the word Obama and so many Americans have ...

The Folly of Fearing China's Global Buying Spree

The global spending spree by China's state-owned firms will promote ...

Love Knows No Boundaries

I was going to write about the upcoming holiday season ...

Legalizing Drugs the Only Way to Prevent Sandy Hooks

Our crazy drug laws are the impediment that keeps us ...

Jobless Data Hides Great Divide in Digital Economy

The jobless rate hides a big gulf between those who ...

The Yen Shocks and a Brave New Yuan

Predictably the world applauded China's announcement that it is ending ...

Asian Southerners

When my parents told me they were moving from our ...

Hiphop, Gangnam Style and a Cultural Reboot

Psy has hit the mark with his subversion of the ...

Vancouver Winter Games and the Speed-Skating Asians

Apolo Anton Ohno cut to the inside the final lap ...

Chinese Fail to Live Up to Spying and Treachery Hype ...

We Asian Americans have been proven unworthy of our vaunted ...

Asia Emerges As the New West for Ambitious Americans

At long last the American mind is ready to see ...

In Defense of Big, Well-Funded Governments

Big government is costly but necessary and well worth it, ...

The Making of the Jeremy Lin Show

Jeremy Lin's magical night against the Nets is a down ...

Education Reforms Aint the Key to American Prosperity

For some time now there's been a kind of national ...

Hypocrites, Grandstanders Pose As Tiger Tamers

No question that Tiger's recent life makes for some of ...

Asian Americans Key to Success in a Green World

BP's horrific Gulf Coast oil leak has created a once-a-generation ...

Rutgers's Shameful Asian American Duo

Tyler Clementi jumped from the George Washington Bridge after his ...

Using Real Asian Snacks to Lose Weight

Letting yourself OD on Asian snacks may be the only ...

Musings on an Uncomfortable Childhood

They say that 50% of your personality is genetic and ...

China Undermines Own Soft Power Push

Beijing's misuse of hard power at home is undermining its ...

Tyrants, Demagogues and the Psychology of Insecurity

Newt Gingrich and Kim Jong-il are examples of leaders who ...

South Philly High Back In The News

Okay, not the mainstream news, but the race-aware and Asian-American ...

2010 Elections: Inducing Mass Amnesia

When you are young you tend to see a world ...

Gary Locke, Lesley Ma and the Asian Fuss Over Low-Key ...

Media fuss over celeb normalcy is a counter-indicator of that ...