When one or two families dominate politics, it is not only democracy that weakens. Family life itself begins to fray. We are seeing this today in the very public and increasingly ugly conflict between ...

Bawal ang magkasakit,” so goes a TV commercial. This is true in the Philippines where health care costs are among the highest in Asia, making them unaffordable for many Filipinos that there are ...

My research, as a social scientist on the subject of human well-being and the quality of life, has been highly involved with ...

During a recent trip to the Philippines we had an interesting conversation about artificial intelligence during lunch with family. The generational divide was ably represented: Boomer, Gen X, ...

The night the river rose, the emergency room became a waiting room for the country’s failures. Children arrived shivering, their shirts sour with canal water. A pregnant woman clutched a bag of ...

Labor Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma ordered last week the investigation of 98 business process outsourcing (BPO) companies ...

Two colossal exposés were detonated like nuclear bombs in our country’s political field in the past few days. They were ...

The Magna Carta, Latin for “Great Charter” is a foundational document for democracy, in that it forced tyrannical kings—beginning with King John 1 in year 1215 AD—to submit to the rule of law, ...

As executive secretary in the Marcos administration, Lucas Bersamin was primus inter pares in the Cabinet, given the mandate of his office — ”to directly assist the President in the management of ...

In what could be a portent of things to come this year, President Marcos vetoed P194 billion worth of projects in the General ...

The Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) held its second rally for the year, a supposed three-day “Rally for Transparency and a Better ...

Sustainability”—an ideal industries were once urged to earnestly aspire for—has in recent years been co-opted as a market strategy to entice “green-minded” clients and deflect scrutiny into ...