Are Asian Americans not voting?
2014 is turning out to be another critical mid-term election year, with most analysts predicting huge losses for the Democrats…
Category: Politics
Governor Brewer vetoes SB1062, Arizona’s “Right To Discriminate” Bill
I guess my friend Mike Bryan of Blog for Arizona was right. Faced with mounting state-wide and national pressure from…
SB1062 “Right to Discriminate” bill will likely be vetoed by AZ governor
Last week, Arizona passed a disturbingly dense State Senate bill called SB1062. This is a bill that it’s authors have…
Canada cancels investor visas: modern Chinese Exclusion, or a sign that Canadian citizenship isn’t for sale?
Although most avenues of legal citizenship to North America involves skill- or job-based visas, one of the lesser-known avenues of…
President Obama raises the minimum wage for federal contractors: thoughts and impacts for #AAPI
I usually don’t tolerate spoilers, but today I’ll make an exception. About an hour ago, mainstream news outlets broke the…
#AAPI face highest chronic unemployment rate: Why we should be against cuts to long-term benefits
For unemployed Americans, the new year was not a good one. With the ushering in of 2014, many of America’s…
Nelson Mandela’s legacy is a call-to-action for social justice activists
Nelson Mandela, former president and life-long fighter for racial equality in South Africa, has died at the age of 95. Most…
China closes labour camps, eases one-child policy
In a major announcement, the Chinese government committed today to several major changes to national policy. The most profound change…
Richard Cohen is guilty of bad writing, but is he guilty of racism?
Richard Cohen will never be accused of being a progressive on race politics: one need only look to his ham-fisted…
Asian Americans helped deliver McAuliffe victory in VA in Election 2013, despite reports of voting rights violations at polls
Yesterday marked a critical election day for the nation, despite being an off-year election with only a handful of “headline-worthy”…
“We The People” an unreported casualty of the GOP shutdown of government
(H/T to Glenn Robinson, @getgln) As if we needed yet more evidence that the GOP is anti-populist and anti-democratic. The government…