Finding Our Own Personal Independence Day

The 4th of July takes the author back to the ...

Tragedy of the Fanatical Preference for Sons

Asia's impulse to amplify the gender imbalance is ensuring both ...

Sleep, Insomnia and the Mysteries of Life

Sleep is life's great mystery, greater I think than love. ...

China Reaches Inflection Point Between Needy and Needed

It has been 31 years since Deng Xiaoping won acclaim ...

Hypocrites, Grandstanders Pose As Tiger Tamers

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

Insomnia and Missing Dreams

I caught a bad cold over the weekend and slept ...

Obama's Biggest Challenge: Surviving Better Times

Barack Obama's presidency is a child of some of the ...

The Irrationality of Scapegoating China

In tough times politicians look for scapegoats. Recently they've zeroed ...

Musings on an Uncomfortable Childhood

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

Uncovering the X Factors Behind Insomnia

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

The Elusive Logic of Sleep

Sound sleep, I suspect, is the ultimate goal of religion. ...

The Importance of Being Asian (Not Generic) American

Those of us who grew up in the America of ...

Vancouver Winter Games and the Speed-Skating Asians

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

Obama's Clarity Wins the Day — Again

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

The Barbarity Hidden in the 'The Cove'

I had the opportunity to catch the award-winning documentary up ...

Ridiculous YouTube Video Draws Ire of Asian American Bloggers

The Italianization of Japan

There was a time when all things Japanese was money. ...

Asian Gluttons Beware: L.A.'s Most Treacherous Food Street

There's no shortage of streets packed with great Asian food ...

End of the Pete Carroll Era

What else is there to say? Sportswriters are having a ...

American Clothes Make American Bodies

Some have blamed American fast food for the obesity epidemic. ...

Reflections After a Trip to Old Europe

One of the more vivid memories from my recent Europe ...

Asian American Men in a Colorblind World

Living in a supposedly colorblind world can be hard on ...

End of U.S. Consumer Hegemony A Boon for Asian Americans

Economists have taken as an article of faith that U.S. ...

Why Jeremy Lin Matters So Much to Asian Americans

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

Japan's Robot Strategy Offers Blueprint for Humanity

Japan's population growth rate peaked at about 2% back in ...

Denying China's Economic Clout

As recently as the end of last year most business ...

2010 Elections: Inducing Mass Amnesia

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

Interdependence Day: New Meaning for July 4th

Few Americans watching and setting off July 4th fireworks were ...

China Struggles to Emerge from U.S. Shadow

In early June China rejected a proposed visit by Defense ...

Confusion Befuddles American Voters

The time has come again for Barack Obama to awaken ...

The Yen Shocks and a Brave New Yuan

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

The Irresistible Pull of a Decaying World

Anyone who has tried booking a Europe trip feels the ...

A World Without North Korea

Anyone who has seen images of the suffering in N. ...

Asian Americans Key to Success in a Green World

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

Evolving from Ching-Chong to Mandarin AP Classes

I don't have to remind anyone about those unfortunate kids ...

Europe and Asia Flip-Flop in American Tastes

I recently tried a French restaurant housed in a charming ...

Eating, Sleeping and Alkalizing for pH Balance

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