Inquirer columnist Randy David recently wrote about two female seniors who were victimized online by smooth-talking (and bogus) bank employees (see “Online scams and the elderly,” 12/21/25). Both ...

Sen. Rodante Marcoleta may insist that the context was “deliberately abbreviated,” but there’s no denying that his words ...

The arrest and prolonged detention of journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, who spent her birthday on Feb. 7 in a Tacloban jail, sparked outrage among press freedom advocates worldwide. Rightly so.

The entire world is in so much turmoil on so many fronts. There is heightened chaos in politics, economics, and international relations. There is a disturbing disorder in humanity’s concept of right ...

We owe the Second Congressional Commission on Education (Edcom 2) our thanks for its third and final report and, more broadly, for the work it has done in the last four years. During a distressing ...

Last Dec. 18, 2025, the Professional Regulation Commission announced that 65.04 percent, or 79,696 out of 122,528 examinees, passed the Licensure Exam for Teachers (LET). This is a huge number of new ...

Last week, I guided my COMM 85 class through small group discussions. COMM 85, Issues in Science Communication, uses the ...

On Feb. 7, Frenchie Mae Cumpio, a community journalist from Leyte, marks her sixth year in detention—an incarceration that rights and media groups strongly believe stems from her work as a ...

There was a time when love was simple. It was walking beside my dad and instinctively holding his arm, like nothing bad could happen as long as I stayed close enough. It was lying in bed as a child ...

Back in my home city after four back-to-back workshops in Metro Manila and Davao City in the last two weeks, I am saddened by ...

The nation can ill afford a perennial impeachment season. A Congress preoccupied with proceedings to remove both the ...

Growing up, I was taught that Jose Rizal was irresistible to women. In time, I learned the names of Segunda Katigbak, Leonor Rivera, O-sei (or Usui Seiko), and Josephine Bracken. I believed Rizal to ...