New Phil. Revolution (NPR)

On Impeachment: Now or Never for VP Sara Duterte

In the slow process of constitutional accountability, deadlines often reveal more than speeches do. Today marks a crucial moment for Sara Duterte as the...

Bongbong Marcos Secret Trip to Japan: In the Age of Rumor, Silence is a Choice

When a rumor trends long enough to feel like news, the burden shifts from the public to the Palace. Over the past several days, social...

US-Israel vs. Iran War Could Unravel Peace in Mindanao

As the world watches the possibility of a widening war between the United States, Israel, and Iran, attention is focused on oil markets, shipping...

ICC vs. Rodrigo Duterte: How International Criminal Court Rules Challenge the Defense Claim That “Kill” Speeches Prove No Grand Plan

By now, the cadence is familiar: deny the existence of a “grand plan,” recast incendiary rhetoric as metaphor, and insist that any violence was...

EDSA@40: The Revolution’s Heirs Could Not March Together

By afternoon, the stretch of asphalt that once carried tanks now carried tension. Forty years after millions of Filipinos flooded Epifanio de los Santos Avenue...

The Duterte Drug War: Spectacle, Selectivity and the Political Economy of Death

When Rodrigo Duterte announced in 2016 that he would be “happy to slaughter” some of the Philippines’ drug addicts, it sounded like crude political...

EDSA@40: From Crony Rule to Elite Capture

In February 1986, Filipinos gathered along Epifanio de los Santos Avenue to topple a dictatorship that had fused state power with crony capitalism. The...

Sara Duterte is Future Philippine President–if things would not change

Stop dreaming about a one-on-one. That’s how Sara Duterte wins. There is a comforting fantasy making the rounds again in Manila: that the surest way...

Duterte ICC Trial, Arrests of Duterte Allies & VP Sara Impeachment: The Marcos Administration’s February Spectacle Will Decide 2028

Philippine politics has always been theatrical. But this February, the situation is different. The Marcos administration organizes a concentrated political season this month, and...