American Politics – Page 2

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 […]

March 24, 2022

America’s Decline

By David Haldane March 24, 2022 As an American child growing up in the 1950s, my parents and teachers reminded me regularly of the […]

September 9, 2021

American Sins

By David Haldane Sept. 9, 2021 The line in the newspaper wrenched my gut. “Sitting on a pile of sandbags outside the family compound,” […]

August 26, 2021

Falling from the Sky

By David Haldane August 26, 2021 The video is shocking. In it, one clearly sees two dots—later identified as human beings—falling to their deaths […]

May 27, 2021

Broken Glass

By David Haldane May 27, 2021 The video felt like a punch in the gut. In it, dozens of young men accost diners at a […]

April 8, 2021

Crossing Borders

By David Haldane April 8, 2021 One of the happiest days of my life was the one in which my Filipino fiancé arrived in America. […]

February 18, 2021

Trump and Duterte

By David Haldane Feb. 18, 2021 I felt honored that she asked me. An old friend, a Filipino journalist named Effe Barker now living in […]

February 4, 2021

Boarded Windows

By David Haldane Feb. 4, 2021 The boards are everywhere. Driving along the nighttime streets, you see them on the storefront windows. Some stand nailed […]

January 21, 2021

Old Friends

By David Haldane Jan. 21, 2021 It had been nearly two years since we’d last met. Heather and I go way back. Sometime in the […]

January 14, 2021

Second American Revolution?

By David Haldane Jan. 14, 2021 I couldn’t believe it was real. As thousands of protestors converged on the US capitol building in Washington, D.C., […]

November 19, 2020

Blood Pressure: Why Mine is Lower in the Philippines

By David Haldane Nov. 19, 2020 At first, I didn’t believe it. “Your blood pressure is very high,” the doctor said, looking several degrees sterner […]