Have you ever looked into someone’s eyes and wondered what goes through their thoughts? Or have you ever peeked through the ...

Every society faces a recurring question about its educational system: what kind of person should it produce? This question appears, on its surface, to be pedagogical. But it is, more fundamentally, ...

Increasing the size of the middle class is said to be a national objective for the Philippines. This piece scans the state of ...

I have spent almost two decades in the Philippine energy sector—as an engineer, lawyer, executive, chair of the National Renewable Energy Board (NREB), and now senior policy adviser to Institute for ...

Grief. Bereavement. Tunneling. Grief is rarely a linear journey. Human suffering suggests a predictable path, a sequential ...

For scoundrels and scalawags, all roads lead to the Senate as a safe haven. First, there are the incumbent senators who are ...

This was written before the seemingly scripted fracas that erupted on Wednesday at the Senate where gunshots rang out.) It was straight out of a “Tom and Jerry” cartoon flick, showing Sen. Ronald ...

Scripted or not, the chaos at the Senate Wednesday night begs thorough investigation and should exact accountability where it lies. Was it staged to generate sympathy for besieged Sen. Ronald ...

The hantavirus is currently circulating on a passenger ship. The virus threatens and has already killed people. For many, this evokes fear and memories of the COVID-19 pandemic. The following ...

Filipinos have endured the communist insurgency for more than five decades. The Communist Party of the Philippines–New People’s Army–National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF), once a formidable ...

When the gavel banged down at the House of Representatives late Monday afternoon, the final count was historic: 257 yes ...

We love a good villain. Janet Lim Napoles, the “pork barrel queen,” made for great television. The latest Senate report on the flood control scandal searched for a mastermind. Finding none, some ...