STUCK IN THE MIDDLE
There is a small moment many Filipino teachers know too well. Payday comes, the salary credit notification arrives, and for a second, there is relief....
Herman M. LagonApril 12, 20264 min
IMPULSES
There is a small moment many Filipino teachers know too well. Payday comes, the salary credit notification arrives, and for a second, there is relief....
There is something quietly telling about a boxer who says, almost casually, that a highly anticipated rematch is “not actually a fight.” It sounds dif...
There are issues you cannot simply scroll past. You try. You read a headline, react quickly, and move on. But some stay with you—while having coffee, ...
Sometimes it begins quietly—a joke that exposes bias, a post that corrects a lie, a knee taken in silence. Entertainment may be the stage, but the lig...
A few years ago, I wrote about the “publish or perish” culture—the quiet pressure that pushes academics to keep producing, often at a pace that feels ...
This letter did not begin with me. A lawyer friend posted a “Dear Uncle” letter on Facebook late one night. It was light on the surface, but there was...
There was a time when you could tell a local home was alive even before you stepped inside. You would hear the kids first—running, shouting, laughing ...
There are days when the news feels more like noise than meaning. A headline flashes — loud, sharp — an insult here, a response there, and it all start...
The loudest debates are often the ones that sound the most legal but feel the most human. That is what makes the recent argument around the Supreme Co...