PA, Chief of Staff, Armed Forces of the Philippines In recent weeks, the Philippines has once again faced a familiar kind of ...

The flooding that swallowed Villa del Rio, Bgy Bacayan in Cebu city and adjacent neighborhoods during Typhoon Tino is not a natural tragedy alone — it is a man-made moral catastrophe. Watching ...

Many expected the economy to soften in the third quarter (Q3), but hardly anyone thought our economy’s growth would slow down as sharply as it did, to 4 percent from 5.5 percent in the first half.

The floodwaters that wreaked havoc in Cebu province did not swell and spill from rainstorms alone but from years of ...

The Philippines is a nation shaped—geographically, historically, economically, and existentially—by water. It is an ...

If I could, I’d be crossing my fingers as I write this column because I haven’t had electricity since last night. A glimmer of hope as well as a distraction: Meralco has been sending in a truck ...

There are few things as dispiriting as political cynicism—the scourge of democratic politics. I can’t, however, blame our folks for succumbing to spasms of cynical lamentations. The numbers are ...

Academia has always been a place of struggle. But what many fail to realize is that the nature of this struggle has changed drastically over the decades. In the 1970s to 1990s, few teachers in the ...

So goes the first few words of a popular Argentinian “joke” that alludes to the tendency of populist and progressive political leaders to later veer toward extreme-right political strategies.

Early this month, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a plan to cap interest rates and other fees charged ...

In the devastating aftermath of Typhoon “Tino,” at least 204 people have been confirmed dead, while over a hundred more are ...

Every great revolution reshaped human life and the laws that protect it. The agricultural age gave us laws on land and food; the industrial age, on commerce and labor; the information age, on ...