The political battlegrounds for the America’s courts spilt into national news coverage once more this past weekend when 86-year-old Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was briefly hospitalized. …
Xi Jinping’s Concentration Camps
A humanitarian crisis is ongoing in the Chinese province of Xinjiang under President Xi Jinping. According to several reports, upwards of a million ethnic Muslims, the Uighurs, are detained in …
You Can’t Impeach a Messiah
You Can’t Impeach a Messiah Officials from the Trump administration and the President himself have made fairly outlandish claims since Trump’s …
Are we looking at a future populist in the Philippines?
What was once crowded with huge amount of trash and foul-smelling sidewalks, the Divisoria district in the Philippines’ capital city, Manila, was cleared of street vendors just two days after Mayor …
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Is There Judicial Independence in Duterte’s Philippines?
A review of salient cases that have been considered by the Supreme Court suggests a judiciary largely unwilling to rule against the president. Three years in his term, President Rodrigo Duterte has …
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Beyond the Yellow and Red Politics of the Philippines
In the Philippine Politics, you either belong to a “Dilaw” [Yellow] camp or to a DDS [Diehard Duterte Supporter] camp. “Dilaw” is the disparaging term for the critics of the country’s leading …
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