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Support Us COVID case numbers are falling across the country, but recent hate crimes against Asian Americans suggest that anti-Asian bias, which spiked during the pandemic, isn’t on the wane. On January 28, 84-year-old Vicha Ratanapakdee was fatally attacked in San Francisco. In early February, an Asian American grandmother was assaulted and robbed in San Jose, one of several hate crimes that took place there just before Lunar New Year. In New York, an assailant slashed a Filipino man in the face with a box cutter, and someone punched two elderly Asian women in separate incidents on the New...

Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images There is no doubt that President Biden and Vice President Harris are doing an outstanding job so far in their new roles as the leaders of this nation. In his short time in office, according to the Federal Register, President Biden has signed 29 executive orders at the time of this writing. These orders cover the climate crisis, the Covid crisis, the privatization of prisons, immigration, LGBTQI+ anti-discrimination, racial equity, and more. While we know that Biden and Harris have just begun, we must keep the pressure on them to ensure that they continue to ac...