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Regions / Philippines
Facebook and Google's dominance of developing-world markets has had catastrophic effects. U.S. regulators should take note.
Pandemic-stricken Filipinos are now asking themselves how they could have fallen for a leader whose only skill is mass murder.
The outbreak of COVID-19 initially looked like a gift to autocrats around the world — until they botched it.
Like Trump in the U.S. and Bolsonaro in Brazil, the Philippine strongman's utter failure to contain COVID-19 may kneecap his authoritarian ambitions.
The deadly interplay of racism, genocide, and denial at the heart of American white society has been reproduced in the country’s wars.
Philippine strongman Rodrigo Duterte is using the pandemic to crush his opposition — and the U.S. is poised to arm him to the teeth.
COVID-19 is so dangerous to food security because the global supply chain was insecure to begin with. Could we remake it?
He might be the devil incarnate, but Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte is beginning the process of ending over 120 years of colonial subjugation.
The strengths of Chinese-style capitalism have also been its vulnerabilities.