The six-year term granted elected presidents of the Philippines, is truly short for a good one, but very long for a bad one.

I saw many posts online about Dominican Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez, proudly Peruvian, popularly known as one of the fathers of ...

The sense of entitlement is real—and disgusting. Ours is a culture severely cleaved by consciousness of class—recall how the term “bakya” was a fatal derogative in the ’60s, until ...

Humanity has long been conditioned to fear and obey the powerful. From time immemorial, obedience was often a matter of survival, with the penalty for defiance frequently being death. Consequently, ...

The news of former president Donald Trump’s advancing lead in the United States presidential race just before noon on Wednesday (Manila time) was either received with consternation or glee, ...

I was standing in front of a long line at the passenger terminal in downtown Tacloban, Leyte, eagerly awaiting my turn to be accommodated by a van en-route to my hometown for Undas, when the ...

As a young girl, I dreamt of shaping future generations as a teacher, nurturing minds that would one day lead the nation. But that dream soon evolved, sparked by a fascination with the natural world ...

The Senate hearing held last week confirmed what we have known all along. Former president Rodrigo Duterte and his cabal of police executioners were responsible for the mass murder of thousands of ...

Severe Tropical Storm Kristine (international name: Trami) did not even rise to the level of a typhoon based on its maximum ...

As I write this, the United States elections are still too close to call, though today’s headline would probably be more ...

As countries meet in Busan, South Korea, from Nov. 25 to Dec. 1 to hammer out a Global Plastic Treaty that addresses an environmental scourge, the Philippines would do well to examine how it is ...