Some laws are ahead of their time. Their enactment may have been initially performative—intended primarily to signal adherence to international norms and thus convey a sense of belonging to the ...

Tomorrow is the last day to register for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) that will be held on Nov. 2.

It’s been one month since you’ve been with us. How are you?” The maid replied: “Oh, I’m very happy ma’am because you all ...

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

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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

If historians of the future take current social media posts as the primary sources that represent our times, Monday, May 11, 2026, will go down in history for a mix of the comic and the tragic. From ...

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 ...