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A fractured mandate
An empty council is detrimental to its constituents in addressing their concerns and advancing their campaigns. It would, however, be more detrimental if those who lead them were chosen against the will of a clear majority.
Frenchie Mae Cumpio’s appeal was denied— What are you going to do about it?
The appeal’s denial does not settle the questions surrounding this case. If anything, it sharpens them.
If Marcos Jr. wants, he knows a way
The country’s economic data are, at the very least, worrisome, although such a softball term is inadequate to picture the full extent of this crisis. But what’s worse is that this administration, including Marcos Jr. himself, fails—or deliberately refuses—to recognize that the problem isn’t only outward nor out of its control.
Enrile was always just a mortal man
To mourn Enrile as a “brilliant statesman” or “key legislator” is to erase the memory of those whose lives were consumed by his policies. The measure of a life in public office cannot be its duration or its rhetorical eloquence, but its fidelity to the people it claimed to serve.
Against the machine
This is not the election we deserve—but it's the one we have
Countercheck on power
Let the truth be our collective countercheck to vicious power
The meltdown of an autocrat
Sara Duterte can only grasp the basic principles of inhumanity
Duterte’s mercenary tradition
Soon, he has to face his day of reckoning for the bloodshed in his own iron fists
Conscience vote: antidote to abstain
To vote or not to vote, to abstain or not to abstain—these are the questions. History offers the…
Holiday economics go beyond holidays
Wednesday’s commemoration of the 41st anniversary of the brutal assassination of then-opposition leader Sen. Benigno “Ninoy” S. Aquino…