Rodrigo Duterte

The poorest victims of Duterte's War on Drugs find themselves caught in a cycle of extrajudicial killings and police impunity in Manila's cemetery slums.

• By Lynzy Billing

A conversation with Joan Carling, Filipino gender equality advocate, former adviser to the United Nations, and an enemy of the state, according to the Duterte government.

• By Megan Clement

Fake news has become one more way for the president to distort truth—but the worst of what passes for it has little to do with press.

• By Lucia Graves

The body of an alleged drug dealer is seen inside a Jeepney after a large-scale anti-drug raid by the police at a slum community in Manila, the Philippines, on July 20th, 2017.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

It's hard to tell how much of Trump's call was diplomacy and how much was genuine kowtowing.

• By Jared Keller