Asia Society Philippines Center Head and Managing Director Natalie Christine V. Jorge writes on the 2025 Philippine election.

Much has been said about the 2025 national budget. The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) clarified and defended that the General Appropriations Act (GAA), which serves as the law when it ...

Benedict Anderson, an Irish-American political scientist, called the Philippine political system as a cacique democracy. It has never changed from the time of Aguinaldo to BBM.

To make the system inclusive and sustainable, gender-responsive procurement strategies are being incorporated into the process of government transactions through the inclusive procurement program.

Yet to this day, the Philippine government’s dismal human rights record remains far from encouraging. This is clearly seen in the way our justice system has so far responded to EJKs arising from ...

The brutality of the Philippines’ political system is not just figurative. The 2009 Maguindanao Massacre, orchestrated by the Ampatuan clan, remains the deadliest attack on journalists in history.

P resident Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. remains firm in his stand that he will not allow the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the “war on drugs” of former president Rodrigo Duterte. He ...