Vicente L. Rafael

Vicente L. Rafael is a Professor of History and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Washington. He is the author of several books on the political and cultural history of the Philippines, most recently The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte. (October 2025)

Massacre Under the Starry Flag

The history of a single photograph reveals how an atrocity in the Philippines was forgotten by its American perpetrators.

Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History

by Kim A. Wagner

October 23, 2025 issue

The Return of the Marcoses

The level of support in the Philippines for Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. cannot be explained by social media disinformation or sheer coercion alone.

July 21, 2022

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