Our Trotsky

Our Trotsky

Internationally renowned Filipino leftist-intellectual Walden Bello’s autobiography reveals his “close encounters with dictatorship, capital, empire and love.”

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China and Duterte: ‘Who’s Your Daddy?’

China and Duterte: ‘Who’s Your Daddy?’

Investigative journalists Marites D. Vitug and Camille Elemia’s book, Unrequited Love: Duterte’s China Embrace, says it was not all smooth sailing for Duterte’s pro-Beijing leanings.

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Killing the Poor: How to Read ‘Some People Need Killing’

Killing the Poor: How to Read ‘Some People Need Killing’

Find out how Patricia Evangelista’s widely acclaimed book mirrors the Philippines’ overall political degeneration.

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Raising a Gen-Z Filipina American

Raising a Gen-Z Filipina American

Anyone with an American child with raging hormones and a misplaced sense of confidence knows the strain every Filipino immigrant parent goes through.

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What Friendship Truly Meant

What Friendship Truly Meant

A new book reveals pre-Independence Filipino officials' impressions of the government offices, museums they visited, and their official lodgings while sojourning in the American capital.

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A Cebuana Goes Dutch

A Cebuana Goes Dutch

She who rode the tiger and refused to be eaten by it.

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Marcos, Martial Law, Mindanao

Marcos, Martial Law, Mindanao

A native of Mindanao explains two scars he still carries from living under the Marcos dictatorship.

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"Lucky Rice" at Beida

"Lucky Rice" at Beida

Stuck in China upon the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus by Ferdinand Marcos, Jaime FlorCruz went to Peking University with students who would remake that country into the global economic power it is today.

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The Tale of Two Ferdinands

 The Tale of Two Ferdinands

How does the new Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. compare with his father, Ferdinand Sr.?

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Nalintikan Na! When Fhit Hits the San

Nalintikan Na! When Fhit Hits the San

Miguel Syjucos’s satirical second novel rummages through a boudoir of political ambitions.

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