WHO WAS THE FIRST FILIPINO?
The question sounds simple: Who was the first Filipino? The quick reply is a name. The steady reply is a map. Ask a classroom full of teachers and stu...
Herman M. LagonDecember 29, 20256 min
IMPULSES
The question sounds simple: Who was the first Filipino? The quick reply is a name. The steady reply is a map. Ask a classroom full of teachers and stu...
Whenever the Constitution enters public debate, a familiar tension appears. The tone subtly shifts from guidance to warning, as if reminding people to...
Sometimes it comes quietly—not with announcements or goodbyes, but with the ordinary weight of a moment. A daughter comes home unexpectedly two weeks ...
Something has been silently growing underneath for a while now, and it would rather not be ignored anymore. You can see it on the streets and on your ...
The streets glow with parols, the smell of bibingka lingers by churchyards, and jeepneys crawl through flood-stained roads with cellophane stars taped...
Try a small exercise. The next time someone with a title—director, colonel, president, CEO, doctor, attorney, chairperson, mayor, congressman—tells yo...
The images that stay with us in Philippine basketball are usually loud – arms raised, crowds shaking arenas, emotions spilling over. This time, gold a...
There is a particular silence that comes after the medal table is finalized. Not the roar of a championship, and not the silence of failure either—jus...
Some of the boldest truths in history came from the quietest voices. Buried under Babylonian soil, the Cyrus Cylinder declared that people deserved fr...