by Karylle Castro | May 1, 2025 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
Same names, same problems. In every Philippine election, the same names dominate the ballots—Marcos, Duterte, Tolentino, Tulfo, Cayetano, Villar, and Revilla. Over 70% of incumbent officials come from political dynasties. Instead of serving as a genuine democratic...
by Anna Thorner | May 27, 2024 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
After the People Power Revolution ousted Ferdinand Marcos, the Filipinos vowed that neither the Marcoses nor the tyranny of martial law would ever return to Malacañang Palace. About forty decades later, the astonishing landslide victory of Bongbong Marcos Jr., made a...
by KARL TRENCHERA | May 23, 2024 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
“Bagong Pilipinas, Bagong Mukha!”, (trans: New Philippines, New Face) the battle cry of the 2022 Marcos-Duterte campaign jingle echoed throughout the nation as the resurging Marcoses and the reigning Dutertes promised something ‘new’. Except, that the ‘new’...
by MARTINA FAYE OBLIGADO | May 21, 2024 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
“Celebrity” in Philippine politics can manifest in more ways than one. Most notoriously, celebrity makes itself evident when film and television stars participate in politics as candidates during election season. However, the increased role of new (or digital) media...
by Roran Ausman | Jun 10, 2022 | University of California, San Diego
How much of the events that we encounter in our political sphere actually happen in the way we think they do? How much of what we know has to do with the narrative formed around it after it happens, if it happened at all? In 1967, Guy Debord wrote The Society of...
