9/11 Shows Need for More Social Intelligence

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

Confusion Befuddles American Voters

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

Going from Fat Superpower to Fit Superpower

Is there a future for a fat superpower in a ...

Noda Win Dims Hope for Japan Revival

A rare opportunity for Japan to bring about real change ...

Reflections on Summer in Lake Tahoe

When I was going to school Lake Tahoe was synonymous ...

U.S. Roads Abound with Metaphors for Life

We could have a Jasmine Revolution in our own nation ...

China's Next Leader Offers Hope for Future

China's likely progress toward an open, even democratic society is ...

Internet Replaces Democracy As Political Force

Last week's Iowa Straw Poll in Ames and the internet ...

Threat from America's Economic Fundamentalists

Today's biggest threat to our collective futures comes from our ...

Standing Up As an Asian American

Outbursts at perceived racial slights can be unpleasant, but can ...

Asia Emerges As the New West for Ambitious Americans

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

A Mechanism to Break Federal Budget Deadlocks

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

Rice Color, Skin Color and the New Cultural Color Code

In a whole-grain world Asian Americans are becoming the new ...

Musings on an Uncomfortable Childhood

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

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 ...

The Importance of Being Asian (Not Generic) American

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

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 ...

Evolving from Ching-Chong to Mandarin AP Classes

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

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. ...

Sleep, Insomnia and the Mysteries of Life

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

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. ...

Denying China's Economic Clout

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

Mao's Last Dancer Satisfies Asian American Audiences

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

Recognizing China As America's Growth Engine

Americans are fretting about a 9.5% jobless rate that isn't ...

How Japan Can Reverse Its Decline

Today the Nikkei 225 index closed at 9,161.68. The same ...

Why Asian Americans Are Leading America's Cultural Evolution

An Wang, Amar Bose, Charles Wang, David Ho, Jerry Yang, ...

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 ...

Cal Bake Sale Exposes Dated GOP Thinking

Cal's Republican students' symbolic bake-sale exposes their party's woeful disconnect ...

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 ...

Reflections After a Trip to Old Europe

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

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 ...