Tag: Lee

Premise 1: Political parties are the central institutions of modern representative democracy. We cannot have effective, robust democracy without effective, robust political parties. A healthy democracy depends on healthy parties. Premise 2: A key reason democracy is failing in the ...

One night when I was about twelve years old my mother and father took us to the Kokusai theater in Seattle’s International District for the typical Monday night Chinese film program. It was the early 70’s. I hoped it was not another sappy tearjerker or silly comedy. I lived for the sword...

When I was a litte girl, my father worked from the capital to a city in the interior of the state. Since then I have always divided my life into two places. Not only were my habits divided, but my wardrobe was too. Clothes to wear in the city and clothes to wear in the countryside. And when I became...