My childhood playground was the public market of Pavia, Iloilo. It had no swings or slides, only bulanteros’ (ambulant ...

The pundits are having a heyday about the current goings-on in the Senate. But the people’s opinions about it—or about ...

There are lies so outrageous they do not merely insult intelligence, they insult the dead. Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano calling former President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war a “pro-life campaign” ...

In January 1970, then President Ferdinand E. Marcos Sr. intervened in a battle for leadership in the Lower House. A week into the New Year and his second term in office as president, it was business ...

It took fierce public outrage and sustained protests by environmental groups, fisherfolk groups, and organized youth for the ...

Two decades ago, Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth” thrust climate change into the global spotlight. With dramatic imagery and dire warnings, it transformed a niche concern into a ...

Just trying to make light of things in these trying times. When just elected Senate President-turned-Facebook-vlogger Alan Peter Cayetano called on the Senate to “go quiet” in protest of the ...

Nonsensical. Illogical. Irrational. The “Theatre of the Absurd,”* a mid-20th-century dramatic movement born from the trauma ...

Where are we now with agrarian reform in the Philippines? On June 10, 38 years would have passed since the enactment of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program. Earlier this year, Department of ...

When I was a sophomore in college, my extemporaneous speech contest trainer advised me to read as much as I could about politics, economics, sociology, and current events. In my attempt to make things ...

Contrary to the debilitating gridlock the Senate has found itself in, the wheels of justice do not seem to be turning slowly in the flood control mess. Away from the drama and fanfare of the Senate, ...

A group of religious and civic society leaders have banded together to organize an investigative body that aims to address ...