2025 Top10
A Return to Political Chaos? The Philippines’ Impeachment Saga
Aries A. Arugay
Vice-President Sara Duterte’s upcoming impeachment trial will have a major impact on whether political stability in the Philippines is upended or maintained.

2025 Top10
Aries A. Arugay
Vice-President Sara Duterte’s upcoming impeachment trial will have a major impact on whether political stability in the Philippines is upended or maintained.
Aaron Mallari|Aries A. Arugay
Elite-led polarisation has fueled expressions of deep-seated resentment as the 12 May 2025 Philippine midterm elections approach. Will voters choose with their hearts or minds?
Aries A. Arugay
Vice-President Sara Duterte’s upcoming impeachment trial will have a major impact on whether political stability in the Philippines is upended or maintained.
Sasha Lee
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has shifted his stance from opposing to obliging a potential International Criminal Court arrest warrant for former President Rodrigo Duterte. The ICC probe has become a trump card in the Marcos-Duterte feud ahead of the midterm elections.
Jason Vincent A. Cabañes|Jozon A. Lorenzana
The Filipino electorate’s collective yearning for a ‘strong leader’, while exploited for political mileage, is better understood as a desire for a government that cares and acts decisively for the people.
Aries A. Arugay
The resignation of Vice-President Sara Duterte from the Cabinet signals the end of Marcos-Duterte political alliance and portends a likely clash between two of the country’s most powerful political dynasties.
Yuko Kasuya|Hirofumi Miwa
Rodrigo Duterte registered high approval ratings throughout his presidency. However, survey research conducted in early 2021 revealed that his popularity was significantly inflated due to preference falsification among survey respondents.
Jason Vincent A. Cabañes
The Philippines’ current information disorder goes beyond “digital disinformation” to “influence operations” which propagate manipulative political narratives. Initiatives to counter online manipulation need to be creative and engaging.
Aries A. Arugay|Surachanee Sriyai
Recent elections in Thailand and the Philippines have seen the use of disinformation. Currently, policy options to tackle such a phenomenon remain limited.
Jason Vincent A. Cabañes|Fernando A. Santiago, Jr.
Digital disinformation has been menacingly deployed to distort historical narratives about the Philippines’ Martial Law period in the 1970s and early 1980s. This tactic, bolstered by social media technologies, has masterfully resonated with the yearning for a “strong leader” who is independent of the country’s elites and able to discipline the nation’s masses.