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Pastoral vs. brutal: The Filipino farmer in Art

Filipino painters have often painted the rural landscape in bucolic settings: a nipa hut by a stream, coconut trees and bamboo groves, carabaos and their mud baths, or the planting and harvesting rice. They have also honored the Filipino farmers in their works.

Pastoral vs. brutal: The Filipino farmer in Art

Nothing-Burger? U.S. obligation to defend the Philippines in the South China Sea

American obligation to defend the Philippines in the South China Sea is a nothing-burger. The question for Filipinos is whether they would risk upgrading this obligation under a renegotiated MDT given the certainty of a conflict between U.S. and China for dominance in the region. The question for Americans is whether they would be willing to foot the bill with their lives on tiny rocks thousands of miles across the Pacific.

Nothing-Burger? U.S. obligation to defend the Philippines in the South China Sea

The importance of being an Angara

Aurora province is decidedly the bailiwick of the Angara political family. Eight Angaras have so far sat in various elective positions in the province and in its capital of Baler.

The importance of being an Angara