They say landing your first job is one of life’s sweetest fruits—a mark of independence, proof that you’ve finally “made it.” ...

I am not a fan of the Tulfo brothers, but give credit where it is due. Sen. Raffy Tulfo’s recent skewering of Tourism Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco, over the Department of Tourism website being ...

On 7, Frenchie Mae Cumpio, a community journalist from Leyte, marks her sixth year in detention—an incarceration that rights and media groups strongly believe stems from her work as a ...

Consider it a report card on how the Department of Education (DepEd) has handled the country’s perennial education crisis. In ...

The findings of the Second Congressional Commission on Education (Edcom 2) confirm what many teachers, parents, and students have long known but rarely acknowledged at the policy level: the ...

Whiplash. Whack. Jolt. Loosely speaking, the relatively new phrase climate whiplash* refers to an event of rapid, sudden, and most often extreme swings between opposing weather conditions within a ...

Ensuring continuity in budget process transparency—Recent gains in budget transparency should be institutionalized by keeping ...

We’re in uncharted territory. For the first time ever, both a sitting president and vice president are simultaneously facing ...

This piece could serve as a sequel to the column piece “When gods err” (8/8/25) that I wrote last year. I started off then by saying that the moniker “the gods of Padre Faura” refers to the ...

The twin murders were committed on Jan. 16. Just three weeks later, the interior secretary himself announced that, with ...

The New Year is often regarded as an opportunity for reflection and renewed hope. While notfree of the mistakes and regrets ...