It was a historic midterm election in Las Piñas City. For the first time in 27 years, its lone district representative will not be from the Villar clan. Outgoing Sen. Cynthia Villar lost the race to ...

The political dynasty series of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) won an Award for Excellence at the 2025 Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) annual Awards for Editorial ...

Indigenous land claims The Molbog and Cagayanen tribes of Mariahangin have applied for an ancestral domain title over the island as early as 2005. Their application has not been acted upon by the ...

The author is an Assistant Professor (On Study Leave) at the Department of Political Science, Ateneo de Manila University and is currently taking Ph.D. in Political Science at the Department of ...

Historical Resistance to Political Dynasties Kurt Zeus Lequit Dizon, a political science instructor at Saint Louis University here in Baguio City, said there is a correlation between the colonizer’s ...

Like many readers, I was deeply touched by Columbia University investigative journalism professor Sheila Coronel’s story “The Making of Edgar Matobato.” Published as a longform piece by the Philippine ...

When he was out on the hustings in the run-up to the 2016 presidential elections, Rodrigo Duterte projected an aura of a brash, irreverent candidate. But his off-the-cuff remarks – “I will ride a ...

My EDSA story begins in 1983 when Ninoy Aquino was assassinated. It is is a story that continues today. I write about this in my memoir Ransomed by Love. In June 1983, I decided to return to Manila, ...

A total of 80, or about 53% of all city mayors, are dynasts seeking reelection. Meanwhile, 27 sitting city mayors are considering relatives to replace them as most of them run for other positions. And ...

Breaching P1B Marcos is one of two senatorial candidates who aired ads worth P1 billion over the nine-month period before the filing of certificates of candidacy (CoCs) in October 2024. The other ...

Unclear environmental, social impacts Apart from the threat of flooding, villagers have also rued MWSS’s failure to disclose the extent of forest cover loss and its impact on biodiversity in the ...

Political dynasties continue to hold a tight grip on provinces in the Philippines. By the count of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ), at least 71 of the country’s 82 provincial ...