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You Are Never Supposed to Matter: How Philippine Democracy Excludes You by Design

Every six years, politicians hand you a ballot and call it “power.” They flood your feeds with campaign jingles, slap posters on every wall, and...

“I would stop drugs, crime, and criminality in three to six months” -Rodrigo Duterte in his 2016 Presidential Campaign The Philippines has long...

Lights, Camera, Action—A line that we usually hear in show business and filmmaking. In this industry, actors desperately compete to get their...

Filipinos place utmost importance on their families, the foundation of our nation. Because of this, it is no surprise that the family...

In recent years, each 9th of May, Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport welcomes very specific types of guests. Not tourists—but presidents, prime...

When democratic norms break down, the most vulnerable communities suffer first, and most deeply. In the United States, recent political shifts...

Same names, same problems. In every Philippine election, the same names dominate the ballots—Marcos, Duterte, Tolentino, Tulfo, Cayetano, Villar,...

Populism has played an important role in the shaping of Brazilian politics over the past century. An approach that pits "the people" against "the...

Populist or President… ? Donald Trump is significantly taking us backward.With the growing...