We do not even know exactly how many were killed during former President Rodrigo Duterte’s violent drug war. Rather than treating this lack of agreement as a reason to abandon inquiry, that single ...

I was caught in heavy traffic once in Concepcion, Tarlac. It was hot, and everything had come to a halt, so I alighted from ...

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The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) is undeniably one of the important social services of the government for least advantaged or low-income households, and therefore a moral ...

Most people from my generation speak of Baguio in the past tense. They recall the scent of pine that is no more. It can still be found outside the city center, in wooded places that await overbuilding ...

There is a carinderia in the Mendiola area that, over time, became something I count on. It sits along a narrow stretch of Abreu Street, where students from the university belt and office ...

Overlooked amid reams of copy and headlines on Senate shenanigans over the past three weeks was the Commission on Human ...

Each year, as the World Health Assembly (WHA) brings the international community together in Geneva, one fundamental question resurfaces: should global health governance be guided by political ...

In the early 2000s, I was interacting with other Filipino writers on online forums. One day, a new writer came and shared ...

Surveying public satisfaction with the president has been done by Social Weather Stations (SWS), regularly and consistently, for four decades now. The new report, “First Quarter 2026 Social ...

Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish been caught, and the last stream been poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money.”—Cree Indian prophecy I refer to the utterly ...

Dean Conant Worcester (1866-1924) was a man nationalist Philippine history taught me to hate. Worcester felt alluded to in a blind item “Aves de rapiña” (Birds of Prey), in the Halloween 1908 ...