Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has confirmed that he killed three men during his time as mayor of Davao city, despite officials trying to downplay an earlier admission. Duterte's comments might ...

Many leaders of People Power, the movement that ousted Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos two decades ago, are disappointed now. Their idealism has given way to disillusionment as the country has ...

Thirty years after the People Power revolution toppled the brutal regime of Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, photojournalist Kim Komenich, who won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for his spot news ...

Only a few Filipinos now remember that evening of Feb. 22, 1986, when Cardinal Jaime Sin of Manila called on contemplative nuns to fast and pray until the battle was won, or else "fast until the end ...

BAGUIO—“Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom,” argued Alexis de Tocqueville in his magisterial overview of democratic ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This research note presents discussions about and by Filipino revolutionaries in the Proceedings of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, ...

We’ll talk to historian John Schmidt about President Ferdinand Marcos’s fall from power in the Philippines. In 1972, he declared martial law and began rule as a dictator. Marcos would order the ...

Francisco “Dodong” Nemenzo was an outstanding intellectual not only in the Philippine Left but in the whole academic world. This book “Notes from the Philippine Underground” is a collection of essays ...

December 31, the last day of the year, has often served as a day of closure, decision, and transition in Philippine history.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte gestures as he meets members of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila on August 30, 2020.