The strangest thing about last week’s Senate hullabaloo was not even the gunshots. Filipinos are no strangers to noisy politics and emotional press br...
“Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants.” – William Penn MOST of us may not have noticed it, but the saying that God’s hands wo...
What makes Philippine politics uniquely exhausting is that sometimes the punchline writes itself before critics even begin speaking. The recent Senate...
A few years ago, a public school teacher in Iloilo quietly told me something that has stayed with me longer than many political speeches. She said she...
The circus started, strangely enough, with a return appearance. After months of staying away from the Senate, Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa suddenly...
The most cutting line in the entire Franco Mabanta-PGMN spectacle did not come from Congress, the NBI, or even Martin Romualdez’s camp. It came from v...
Yesterday, the House of Representatives impeached Vice President Sara Duterte, sending the matter to the Senate for trial. Even before the vote, the c...
There is something oddly predictable about how people talk about the University of the Philippines online. The moment students protest, question gover...
It is easy to cheer for progress—especially when numbers say we are doing well. The country has often ranked high in gender equality lists, topping So...