August 3, 2026

Life As a T-shirt

By David Haldane Aug. 3, 2026     It’s by far my coolest T-shirt. All black except for a yellow, green, and blue image on the […]
July 27, 2026

Farewell International Criminal Court?

By David Haldane   July 27, 2026     A recent newspaper article almost made me spill my morning orange juice. It was a Wall Street […]
July 20, 2026

Needles, Needles, Everywhere!

  By David Haldane   July 20, 2026       I thought the worst was over Two months ago, I wrote a column relating how […]
July 13, 2026

Trapped in China

By David Haldane   July 13, 2026       China and I are not friends. I first realized that long ago when, passing through one […]
July 7, 2026

Nursing Here or There?

By David Haldane   July 6, 2026     I love Filipino nurses. As my father lay dying with Alzheimer’s and a host of other ailments […]
June 28, 2026

The Tumbling of Trump

  By David Haldane   June 29, 2026     He’s finally lost me. Two years ago, I wrote a column called “Confession: Hamas Made Me […]
June 21, 2026

A Father’s Day Postponed

By David Haldane June 22, 2026   I had hoped to spend Father’s Day with my son. That may not sound like much but hear me […]
June 14, 2026

Boomers: Emboldened or Embalmed?

By David Haldane   June 15, 2026     My six-year-old daughter said something mind-altering the other day. We were nearing the end of our long […]
June 13, 2026

Eliseo Silva and the New ‘Golden Age’ of Filipino Art

  By David Haldane   June 14, 2026       You’ve probably seen them in photos. A gigantic archway spiraling over Beverly Boulevard in Los […]
June 7, 2026

Radical Foreigners

By David Haldane   June 8, 2026     Reading the foreign press, you’d think they were heroes. “A Hayward man who dedicated his life to […]
May 31, 2026

Life Interrupted

By David Haldane June 1, 2026     It’s a disruption that’s hard to imagine. You spend years wooing a beautiful Filipina. You visit her provincial […]
May 24, 2026

A Needle in Your Eye

By David Haldane   May 25, 2026     It was the news I’d been dreading. “Yup,” he said, “you’ve got some fluid in there.” Had […]