Filipinos of a certain age make it a ceremony to remember Sept. 21, 1972, for the imposition of martial law, which the dictator Ferdinand Marcos formally announced two days later. Far from being a tedious chore, the yearly commemoration is an act of will to retrieve from the mists of memory a dark era of brutality and resistance; it is as well a pushback against the efforts of the dictator’s heirs and their enablers to
We’ve had more than four years of opportunity to observe President Duterte’s decision-making behavior, and what have we learned by now? Is there a common denominator in his decisions? Do we see a pattern of underlying reason in his actions? Do a moral anchor, legal foundation and principled advocacy or
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