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From Left to Right, a New Coalition

The Damocles Dilemma and Winner-takes-all

First Draft: Engulf and Devour

America only has to blink once

The Marcoses and Romualdezes: Avatars of Normality

The return of Marcosian Jujitsu

Horror and Resolve

Now you see it, now you don't

Reclamation Redux

The Explainer Special: They Never Left!

September 23 and other stories

A question of value

Pleasing the Veep with shiny things

Reclamation: Enterprise Cost

Stories of A Death Foretold

The Real Mastermind: in Plain Sight

Ninoy’s Martyrdom: 40 Years Since

Our limited knowledge base

Has the political center evaporated?

It doesn't get easier, the second time around

From Beijing, with Love

Doronila Writes 30

Hate Love? Powers-that-be are used to it.

A deep dive into basic education

Coalition Merry-go-Round

A self-sustaining, stable, party system

A last look at a departed general

Priming the coalition for the midterms

TitoSen and Robin: the end of an era

Two exes get taken down a peg

First Draft: Coalition Rumpus

The Battle over Data Centers

Submarine cables: An undeclared war

Today in History: The Fall of Corregidor

Today in History: Corregidor's Invasion Eve

Inviting the Philippines to the Microchip Alliance

Today in History: Baguio City under Japan

Today in History: Massive Blowup on Corregidor

Today in History: The Logistics of Survival

Today in History: Refugee Life in Panay, 1942

Today in History: Corregidor Battery Under Fire

Today in History: Occupied Manila Shuns Emperor's Birthday

A "situation out of control": Reining in the cops

Today in History: Manila Frantic With Anxiety, 1942

Today in History: Finding a POW in Capas, 1942

Today in History: Mass Enshrinement, 1945

Today in History: Operating in Malinta Tunnel

Today in History: From Brent to Camp Holmes

Today in History: Death Duties in Capas

Today in History: Escape from Bataan to Corregidor

ROTC and the Founding Generation of Officers

Today in History: A Mother Ponders Killing Her Children

Today in history: Invasion of Panay

Today in history: Flying boat lifeline, 1942

Today in history: Dying like flies in Capas

Today in history: Rumors while awaiting the end

Today in History: War Comes to Panay

The "Mexicanization" of the Philippine Military

Today in History: Death March, in Kilometers

Join me on Notes

Today in history: Death March Notes

Today in History: Manila Falls Silent, 1942

Today in History: Death March Begins, 1942

Today in History: Bataan Surrenders

Today in History: Beginning of the End of Bataan

Today in History: The idea of Surrender is Proposed

In defense of Corregidor

Today in History: The Battle of Manila Bay

Today in history: A future American president talks to a Filipino president

Today in history: Soldiers burning papers, 1942

Today in history: Angry at the news, 1942

Chronicling the Fall of Bataan

Today in history: "This place has turned into hell."

Today in history: Supernatural Marcos

New Reads

Today in history: Easter Mass in Limasawa

Today in history: Igor Stravinsky in Taytay, 1959

Political Murder: A Coalition Trap

Today in history: a president reminds a general of the chain of command

Today in history: An Acting President in Mindanao

Today in history: How Bohol fell to the Americans

Today in history: Bukidnon to Australia by bomber, 1942

Today in history: Bataan offensive is next, 1942

Today in history: Vomiting after meals

Political Murder: Migrating from the margins to the center

Today in history: Covid strikes, two years ago

Today in history: Rumors of an escape, 1942

Today in history: Going into exile, 1945

Are We Even Wargaming?

Today in history: Generals confront looming defeat

Today in history: Looking beyond the Philippines

Today in history: Remotely coordinating escapes

The stunted Filipino: A Permanent Underclass

Today in history: Sorsogon circa 1792

Today in history: Capture of the Princess of Negros

Australia: A Middle Power in our Midst

Today in history: A father despairs of his son

Temporary Reprieve for the Jeepney

Today in history: Death on PanAm, 1951

Today in History: Marcos in Abra, 1943

Today in history: Camiguin circa 1565

Today in history: Twilight Parliament

Today in history: Detention circa 2011

Today in history: Young novelist spreads her wings

Today in history: War comes to Silay

Today in history: Americans offer surrender conditions to Aguinaldo

Today in history: Despair on Bataan

Today in history: Filipino truths, 1936

Today in history: An American describes Filipinos

Today in history: Bureaucrats under military command

The parameters of Charter Change

Today in history: Tokyo dogs vanishing

Today in history: Attacking Pasig by land and river

Today in history: A Cavite cemetery, 1899

Today in history: Touring the provinces

Today in history: Filipino eyewitness to Tokyo bombing

Today in history: The Veep's POV

Today in history: Did Marcoses go to the airport?

This week: House of Reps' big gamble

Today in history: Ike unhappy with Mac

Today in history: Victory in Bataan

Today in history: Discomfort in the deep

Today in history: Escape from Corregidor

Everything you wanted to know about our agriculture

Today in history: A General visits Bataan

Today in history: A hostile look at Manila

Today in history: Mabini and American censorship

Today in history: Sundaes and suffering

Today in history: What to do about Marcos

Today in history: The politics of government organizing

Today in history: Oppositionists and the State Department

First Draft: Sibling Rivalry

Today in history: A toast to the troops

Today in history: Observing aftermath of war in Caloocan

Today in history: A Japanese soldier's diary

Lurching from vegetable crisis to another

Today in history: Malate in flames, 1945

Today in history: a city in agony

Today in history: "Filipinos will never forgive you for this"

First Lady in the dock

Today in history: The Filipino-American War begins

A snapshot of early avation in the Philippines

Today in history: Philippine gold evacuated

Today in history: Looking at Japanese soldier's kit

Today in history: Frustrations of reform

Today in history: Marcos on the First Quarter Storm

Today's diary entry: an American civilian in UST, 1945

This week: zeroing on the real Marcos agenda

Today's diary entries

Today in History: An Asian on Japan and China

Today in History

January 11 in diaries

The military, police and a law as an apple of discord

January 9 in diaries

January 8 in diaries

January 7 in diaries

January 6 in diaries

January 5 in history

The year's off to a brisk start

January 4 in Diaries

January 3 in diaries

January 2 in diaries

January 1 in diaries