Duterte’s Incoherent and Nebulous Foreign Policy

Duterte’s Incoherent and Nebulous Foreign Policy by Jeraldine Pascual IT WAS surely not an easy feat for a 73-year-old president to travel to 21 countries during his first year in office, and to assume the chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations...

Democracy Under Attack

COVER STORY Democracy Under Attack IT WAS a tumultuous year for Philippine democracy as the Duterte administration pushed its own brand of social order by undermining the democratic principles that the country has upheld over the years. Barefaced attacks rained on...

Publisher’s Note 2018

PUBLISHER’S NOTE Melinda Quintos De Jesus THE CRISIS OF PHILIPPINE DEMOCRACY IN 2018, President Rodrigo Duterte stopped the rant and chant about the drug problem in the country and how police should kill, kill, kill to rid us of the plague. It was all he managed...

Verbatim

VERBATIM “The whole tragedy of this whole incident for me isn’t even Duterte giving the order. It’s other media agreeing with it. They should know that if the President can target me, he can target anyone else whom he thinks wrote something unflattering...