Thirty-Eight Years Later, EDSA Is Winning the Wrong Argument

On February 25, 1986, somewhere between one and three million Filipinos stood on a stretch of highway in Metro Manila and, without firing a single shot, ended twenty-one years of dictatorship. Ferdinand Marcos fled to Hawaii. Corazon Aquino was sworn in. The world called it a miracle. Journalists called it a model. Political scientists gave … Read more