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 ...

The story is told about a flight attendant who announced that there were only 40 dinner packs for the 140 passengers onboard ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

More than a decade ago, my electrical engineering class of 2011 at the Technological University of the Philippines Taguig had our plant visit to Cebu as part of the curriculum. I still remember how ...

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 ...

Philippine education is in trouble, and we do not need another international ranking to confirm it. Anyone who has stepped ...

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

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