April 5, 2026

Filipinos in the Desert: Rising Together in Filipino Town

  By David Haldane April 5, 2026     Not a place but a movement. That’s how one of its founders described what appears to be […]
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March 16, 2026

An Alien in My Own Hometown

By David Haldane March 16, 2026     It began as a misunderstanding. “Sweet N’ Low?” the woman in the coffee shop wanted to know. All […]
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January 5, 2026

Born to Be Free? — The Case Against Birthright Citizenship

By David Haldane Jan. 5, 2026     I was born in America. Which makes me a US citizen. My parents were citizens too: Dad by […]
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September 8, 2025

Racist America?

  By David Haldane September 8, 2025     The question stunned me into silence. “Have you ever been asked where you’re from?” my dinner mate […]
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July 28, 2025

A Visitor in My Own House

By David Haldane July 28, 2025     I don’t blame anyone. Honestly, I always knew it would eventually come to this. My wife’s Filipino family […]
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July 13, 2025

Invisible Fireworks

  By David Haldane July 14, 2025   I’d never seen anything like it. The July 4th fireworks display that didn’t happen. And yet, a perfect […]
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June 29, 2025

Walt Disney Lives

By David Haldane June 30, 2025   It’s among the most vivid memories of my childhood. Growing up in Southern California, we lived just 20 minutes […]
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April 7, 2025

Deporting Radicals

By David Haldane April 7, 2025     I understand why students protest. As an undergraduate at UCLA in the late 1960s, I spent a fair […]
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November 25, 2024

Migrant Fears

By David Haldane Nov. 25, 2024     The anxiety was thick. “People are scared,” Romeo Hebron said. “We’re not sure what’s going to happen.” The […]
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February 5, 2024

Getting to America

By David Haldane Feb. 5, 2024     It was a moment of uncertainty. Would we get the smiling, easy-going immigration officer who seemed like a […]
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September 7, 2023

Reverse Diaspora

By David Haldane Sept. 7, 2023     The videos made my stomach churn. They depicted water literally gushing down the streets, almost overturning cars. “Oh […]
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December 8, 2022

A Philippine Thanksgiving

By David Haldane Dec. 8, 2022     It was like all the other Thanksgivings I’ve experienced in my life. Except, instead of turkey, a roasted […]
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