For a while, it seemed as if the memory of the 1986 Edsa People Power Revolution—the most monumental event in contemporary Philippine history—was itself on its way to that proverbial dustbin of ...

Back in 2017, during the late, great Inquirer Briefing infographic experiment, we reviewed revolutions in our era by adopting the point of view of Timothy Garton Ash, who described two kinds of ...

Forty years ago, Filipinos stood on a highway and reset the moral boundaries of power. They did not gather along Edsa simply to remove a single man from office. They gathered to reject a system that ...

I often have to remind myself that my present freshman students were born after 2000. Martial law and the 1986 People Power Revolution are as ancient as dinosaurs and cavemen. Nothing brought this ...

I am in college now, yet part of me still lives in the quiet glow of birthday candles. Every year, I closed my eyes and ...