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Mayor of Manila: A Portrait of Populism as Performativity

Last September, I started a new job in Manila City. Despite having lived right next to it for all of my adult life, spending most of my waking...

Thailand is the country that has had the most number of coups in modern history. This says a lot about how troubled Thai politics is and how deep...

Has Honduras failed to uphold the upmost value of Democracy, while submitting into the hands of Dictatorship? Honduran voters got an unexpected...

Throughout history, democracies have worked and fallen. Venezuela and North Korea are examples of this. Great Britain gained control of Hong Kong...

Much like the warring families in George R.R. Martin’s bestselling fiction series Game of Thrones, Juan Guaidó and Nicolás Maduro have...

In the largest leak ever to come out of Beijing, 400 pages of classified government documents were leaked to Western media sources. These...

Ras al-Ayn bombing on October 10, 2019. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. When United States President Donald Trump ordered the withdrawal of...

How Bolsonaro takes Trump's extremes to the extreme On the rise of a certain president, Brian Winter, editor in Chief of Americas Quarterly,...

President Rodrigo Duterte. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Ten years ago, on November 23, 2009, 58 people—32 of them journalists—were...