With so many crises confronting it, the Marcos administration should be burning the midnight oil these days. Malacañang’s lights need to be on well into the night for crisis talks, because that’s ...

Berlin—One of the rewards of traveling abroad is that it equips us with a rearview mirror to look at our country in comparison with what we see and experience in advanced societies. Previously, ...

The daybreak attacks by the combined forces of the United States and Israel on Iran, and the latter’s retaliation, which also targeted its oil-rich neighbors, have resumed tit-for-tat strikes that ...

Navigating the complexities of governance and fiscal policy is never simple—yet the costs of inaction are immense. Between 2023 and 2025, the Department of Finance (DOF) estimated that bureaucratic ...

In college, my Constitution and Politics 101 professor asked our class of 25 engineering students to write a piece on the significance of government and why. I entered a trance state, wore my minor ...

Just when the Philippine economy was starting to gain some growth momentum after being laid low by the flood control corruption scandal in the second half of last year, it is facing another potential ...

We were taught public speaking in high school: writing and giving speeches in first year, extemporaneous speaking in second year, and then debate in our last two years. In third year, our debate ...

March 16, 1521, is a date that opens Yoyoy Villame’s folksy “Magellan” song. It is the only fact, the only thing worth remembering in his amusing retelling of Magellan’s short visit to the ...

Healing my inner child” is a phrase that floats casually on the internet, wrapped in aesthetics and soft music. But for some of us, it is not an aesthetic. It is survival. I learned to be strong ...

Every few years, culture knocks on the doors of Congress under a new name. This time, it comes under a House bill as the proposed Act Establishing the Department of Culture. This proposal has had ...

I adored Davao during my first visit—the fruits, the cleanliness, the people. But the trip quickly turned sinister when the taxi driver asked me if I had heard the “good news” delivered by ...

The unfolding missile exchanges between Iran, Israel and America is not a distant spectacle to be watched from the sidelines. US President Trump assures that the Iran conflict will only last for four ...