Vice Mayor Amy Olegarioโs words during the Sangguniang Bayan deliberation were striking not because they were dramatic, but because they were restrained. โBut since you […]
Category: Opinion
Why Journalism Must Keep Choosing Truth Over Noise
As 2025 draws to a close, it is worth asking a difficult but necessary question: What is journalism for in a time when outrage travels […]
Bright Lights, Dark Shadows: Christmas in the Philippines Amid Endemic Corruption
IPIL, Zamboanga Sibugay โ From September to January, the Philippines glows. Streets are draped with lights, malls echo with carols, and parols โ star-shaped lanterns […]
When Christianity Blessed the Gun: A Critique of the Drug War
The Philippine โwar on drugsโ did more than unleash police violence. It exposed a deeper crisisโa moral and theological collapse within sectors of Philippine Christianity. […]
Political Dynasties Are Not a Right. Democracy Is.
Every time the question of abolishing political dynasties resurfaces, the same tired argument is raised: banning dynasties, we are told, is undemocratic. It allegedly violates […]
Corruption Isnโt a Flood Control Problem โ Itโs a Governance Problem
When floods hit, so does public anger. And almost inevitably, flood control projects take the blame: overpriced, poorly built, endlessly funded, and seemingly designed to […]
OPINION: Why an Anti-Dynasty Law Is Now a Democratic Emergency
Nearly four decades after the 1987 Constitution warned against political dynasties, Congress still hasnโt passed the one law that would make that warning real. In […]
OPINION: When Winning Becomes Everything, Democracy Loses โ Even As Sara Duterte Dominates Early 2028 Surveys
Early surveys for the 2028 presidential race show that Vice President Sara Duterte continues to lead by wide margins. She isย far ahead of rivals from […]
Is Local News Dead? Or Are We Killing It?
Local news isnโt dying a natural death. It is being killed slowly and methodicallyโnot by disinterest, not by digital disruption, but by a political and […]
Opinion | Is โKung Walang Korap, Walang Mahirapโ A Problematic Promise?
The slogan โKung Walang Korap, Walang Mahirapโ burst into the national consciousness more than a decade ago. It resonated like a battle cry then, and […]
Why the โOust and Replaceโ Reflex Is Breaking Philippine Democracy
Has it become a template? Every time the country hits a governance snagโcorruption scandals, policy failures, leadership meltdownsโthe national reflex is painfully predictable: oust the […]
COMMENTARY: A GATEKEEPER OF POWER, NOT PUBLIC TRUST
Lucas Bersaminโs ascent to the position of Executive Secretary in September 2022 was not greeted with applause but with suspicionโand rightly so. The so-called โLittle […]