Long Reads

Separating fact from misinformation about one of the most important figures who shaped Philippine history.

So that’s where Jose Rizal got his fire.

Labor leader and worker's champion Crisanto Evangelista left an indelible mark in Philippine history.

He is now CEO of one of the most successful ad agencies in the Philippines.

Bukas Quiapo isn't your ordinary kind of tour.

Though not as famous, they were just as heroic.

Mayor Sitti Djalia Turabin-Hataman, mayor of Isabela, Basilan, proves religion can unite people.

The history of kare-kare has many narratives and we look at three competing claims to its invention.

Can you be both a man and a feminist?

The good son takes part in a program that's known to make grown men cry.

A rich housewife has an affair with her personal trainer and heads back to her childhood home. Read an excerpt from Caroline S. Hau's Tiempo Muerto.

It was originally "Jolibe."

The fate of one of the first big shopping malls in the metro is uncertain.

Mega Global’s founder and CEO William Tiu Lim takes us on a literal "sardine run."

Its characteristic red hue may imply a gory past.

Apollo 11's third astronaut orbited the moon, all alone, while his colleagues walked on it.

The 30-year-old mayor toppled a political stranglehold that existed his entire life, but will he be able to break the wheel.

Douglas MacArthur is famous for liberating us from the Japanese, but he's also known to have had a passionate affair with Dimples Cooper.

In 1582, the Japanese invaded the Philippines. It’s not what you think.

"Garry Shandling always said to me, 'Don’t get mad, get funny.' It changed my life."