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

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 ...

The call to raise the entry-level salary of public school teachers to P50,000 has grown into a resounding demand. It is not only about the amount; it is about dignity, recognition, and the urgent need ...

Professor Randy David tried to dissect the conclusion of Senate blue ribbon former chair Sen. Panfilo Lacson’s report that the current flood control investigation was a “replica” of the Priority ...

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 ...

Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano came out with a video statement last Saturday, obviously with the intent of hitting four ...

Even the hardiest of us will have difficulty keeping calm with what’s happening in the Senate. Sen. Imee Marcos introduced a ...

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 ...

Recent global oil price increases and geopolitical tensions have again exposed the Philippines’ vulnerability as a major oil-importing country. The country imports about 95 percent of its petroleum ...

Eleanor Pinugu’s column, (see “Unfriending over Politics,” 5/18/26) accurately captures a painful reality: political disagreement is increasingly treated as moral defect, and personal ...