That famous quote, “If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change,” which comes from Giuseppe Tomasi di ...

When I wrote “Dedutertefication” in the Philippine Daily Inquirer last month, I expected pushback. What I did not fully anticipate was the texture of it—the specific, recurring shape of the ...

The Philippines is battling a perfect storm of challenges from multiple fronts, from pump prices of petroleum products skyrocketing to their highest on record, the peso plunging to its weakest level ...

Calls to abolish the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) have resurfaced after Interior Secretary Jonvic Remulla floated the possibility of scrapping the youth council. Remulla cited declining participation and ...

I was hanging out with my nephews when their parents asked one of them a question. The boy answered sloppily, as though pressed into servitude, and with resentment to show for the effort. His mother, ...

Even if the guns fell silent in the US-Israeli versus Iran conflict tomorrow, the world would remain gripped by a deepening oil crisis with consequences that will reverberate through every sector of ...

War in the Middle East has once again reminded Filipinos of a painful reality: our economy remains dangerously exposed to ...

The question I keep getting asked these days is how the Iran conflict will hit our economy. I’d point to three things—oil, remittances, and trade—disrupted in the wake of the ongoing war, which ...

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” —Audre Lorde Every year in March, the world celebrates Women’s Month—a time meant to ...

The Iranian or Persian civilization is one of the oldest in the world. Long before Europeans generated a slew of philosophies and theories about the world, the Persian Empire had already given rise ...

OXFORD–“We don’t wish for war, but if it’s imposed on us, we won’t [shirk],” Iran’s last Shah (King of Kings) said in an interview at the height. “[This is] our jugular vein; we live ...