Joshua Emmanuel Ramos

Polarization’s Benefits Don’t Matter in a Backsliding Democracy

Some nation-states around the world have gone through intense polarization, democracies included. The United States, because of recent events such as the Capitol Insurrection, is an apt example of...

Democracy Erodes by Desecrating the Constitution

University of the Philippines, Diliman

Beginning the 1970s, the Philippines has endured Constitutional violations committed by no less than the government. To go around the 1935 Constitution’s ban on a third consecutive term, President...