We are a country of thieves and beggars whose existence is made endlessly possible by the adherence of the ruling political class to the rituals of democracy. The thieves need the beggars to elect them to office in what is, for all appearances, a democratic contest....

Amidst chants of “Zaldy, Zaldy Magnanakaw” and “DPWH, Kurap Kurap Kurap,” sexually explicit choruses implicating Jinggoy, Marcos and the Discayas were also heard and plastered all over the placards raised during the September 21, 2025, mobilizations. In an...

The Philippine anti-corruption campaign, triggered by the recent exposes on elected officials’ cannibalization of the national budget to the tune of billions of pesos, is gaining steam. Street protests are drawing in greater numbers and becoming more organized with...

A revolt notwithstanding, the Marcoses have never left us—and may never will. This forum explores an answer to why this is so. An answer that is more rooted in catching a glimpse of displays and signages than in the brute intramurals of elite politics; an answer found...