US politics – David Haldane

July 27, 2023

Should Parents Be Told?

By David Haldane July 27, 2023 It seems like a question with a simple answer. If a child exhibits symptoms of mental illness in school, […]

July 6, 2023

Technicolor

By David Haldane July 5, 2023 It’s happened at last. What conservatives hoped and liberals feared: the US Supreme Court has banned race-based affirmative action […]

February 9, 2023

Soldiers

By David Haldane Feb. 9, 2023 I have a vivid memory of the coffee we sipped. It was bitter, somehow off kilter, as if […]

December 29, 2022

Divided Faith

By David Haldane Dec. 29, 2022 I read some surprising news the other day. An American Catholic priest, it seems, had been dismissed from the […]

December 1, 2022

Gringos Get Gone!

By David Haldane December 1, 2022 The irony is stunning. Mexicans want Americans to stay away. And, if they’re already in Mexico, well, they’d […]

November 3, 2022

Standing In

By David Haldane Nov. 3, 2022 I had an entirely different lede in mind for this column. I expected it to say that the […]

August 25, 2022

Invisible

By David Haldane August 25, 2022 Let me confess something right up front: I didn’t begin noticing Filipinos until I married one. Now, 14 […]

June 16, 2022

Activism’s Heavy Toll

By David Haldane June 16, 2022 It was everywhere. With few exceptions, every TV news channel in America livestreamed last week’s Congressional hearings in […]

June 2, 2022

Bombing the Dictionary

By David Haldane June 2, 2022 It enrages me every time. I’ll be working on a column—regarding, say, a construction project—and type the word […]

May 26, 2022

Mass Shooting: Racist or Insane?

By David Haldane May 26, 2022 It was a heart-rending headline. A crazed young man walked into a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, […]

April 21, 2022

Disney Goes for Woke

By David Haldane April 21, 2022 I visited Disneyland recently prepared to be angry. Instead, my heart melted the moment I saw Goofy and […]

April 1, 2022

Defining Gender

By David Haldane March 31, 2022 The moment oozed drama. “Can you define the word ‘woman’?” a Republican senator asked President Joe Biden’s nominee for […]