
Democracy depends on broad-based taxation—history is clear about that
Political debates about democracy often focus on culture, leadership, or polarization. But history points to a more prosaic—and more powerful—driver o...

Political debates about democracy often focus on culture, leadership, or polarization. But history points to a more prosaic—and more powerful—driver o...

THAT’S how we should be. To simply be by ourselves is actually an anomaly. As persons, endowed with intelligence and will, with the capacity to know a...

Senator Ping Lacson saw it coming. The other day, when he laid out what looked like a hypothetical about Senate leadership and the impeachment math, h...

I recently received a message from Chuckberry Pascual, who was looking for a resource person among individuals familiar with language, literature, and...

By John Iremil Teodoro KANG nagligad lang nga bulan may ginpatay ang mga militar nga sangka bata nga manunulat rëgya sa Isla Negros, partikular sa ban...

“See? Crime now has gotten worse than before! Not like during our time when crime was low.” Sure ka? I think the real question is: Did crime indeed ge...

TWO events tethered us to our TV sets last Monday: the live coverage of the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte at the House of Representatives...

IT’S obvious that we have to contend with the many aspects and dimensions of our life—the natural and the supernatural, the temporal and the eternal, ...

Yesterday, the House of Representatives impeached Vice President Sara Duterte, sending the matter to the Senate for trial. Even before the vote, the c...