Kamala Harris did THAT. She, a black and South Asian woman, sat on that stage for 90 minutes and reminded the nation, especially Mike Pence, that she deserves to be in the global political arena and to be the Vice President of the United States. Kamala Harris sat through interruptions…

On Thursday, January 2, 2020, Iranian general Qassem Soleimani was killed in an airstrike ordered by President Trump near Baghdad airport. The Pentagon confirmed the attack, writing that Soleimani was “actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region” (NPR). The timeline leading…

An Ode to Diane Nguyen, my “Bojack Horseman” Spirit Animal and Fellow Angry Liberal — The Vietnamese-American ghost writer, blogger, and social media extraordinaire (give or take) from the popular Netflix series “Bojack Horseman,” whose final episodes will premiere at the end of January on the streaming platform, is one of two humans in the cast of primary characters in a show filled with anthropomorphic…

In March 2017, a Buzzfeed article reported that UC Berkeley’s world-famous Professor of Philosophy John Searle had been sued by Joanna Ong, a graduate student in the Philosophy department, for sexual assault over many years. After the allegations, several other women came forward, and even more students relayed stories of…

Being in the middle of Free Speech mania at UC Berkeley is confusing and disheartening. I have issues with the right, who argue that the Free Speech Movement is dead. As if the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s, which fought for open conversation and political dialogue, is comparable to…

Normally, I write my Medium articles in Microsoft Word, spend several days researching for them and finding supplementary materials to make sure I’m 100% factually correct, and then let it sit for a day or two before I read it over to make sure it’s ready to publish. I’m not…

One of the standout quotes from the James Comey statement released on June 8 is President Trump asking Comey for loyalty: “He then said, ‘I need loyalty.’ I replied, ‘You will always get honesty from me.’ He paused and then said, ‘That’s what I want, honest loyalty.’ I paused, and…