The Democratic Price of Countering Authoritarianism
The US need to contend with China and Russia may obscure the accumulation of risk from many individual tradeoffs.
Stay updated with breaking news from Although Marcos. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
The US need to contend with China and Russia may obscure the accumulation of risk from many individual tradeoffs.
A Facebook video falsely conflates the $1.3 billion investment pledges secured during the President’s visit to Washington DC, with interest supposedly coming from a Marcos account in the US
The woman who would become known as the “Steel Butterfly” for her combination of fashion sense and political resolve was born Imelda Romuáldez. Her mother died when she was eight years old, and her father, saddled with a failing law practice and mounting expenses, soon relocated the family from Manila to Tacloban. She was dubbed the “Rose of Tacloban” as the winner of a local beauty contest in 1949, and she graduated from Tacloban’s St. Paul’s College with a degree in education in 1952. That year she returned to a Manila that was buzzing with post-World War II construction, a cit...