On Oct. 20, 1944, U.S. general waded into the waters at Leyte as World War II moved toward its final chapters.

One hundred and one years ago, as the U.S. approached the Mexican War of 1846, a Democratic editor found a defiant and memorable phrase: “Manifest Destiny.” The phrase fitted the temper of the times, ...

[Mr. Arthur Stanley Riggs, the author of the present paper in the ATLANTIC’S series of letters from abroad, is an American journalist who has been successively the editor of the Manila Daily Bulletin ...

From Aparri in the north to Zamboanga in the south, Filipinos went to the polls last week. The election was, in some cases, quite literally a matter of life or death. Before the polls even opened, 96 ...

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The plane goes down in good weather in the southern Philippines. There are no signs of survivors. An Air Philippines jetliner carrying 130 people crashed in the southern Philippines today. Rescuers ...