THE three-day Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) rally from June 30 to July 2, 2026, was certainly not a crowd-control story nor an EDSA traffic story, and certainly not merely a…
In the coming impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte this July 2026, the loudest debate is not merely about guilt or innocence. It is about arithmetic, or more precisely,…
WHAT has become of the Philippines when a parent can no longer send a child to school without silently praying that the classroom remains a classroom, not a crime scene?…
There is something deliciously absurd and legally troubling about calling “Mary Grace Piattos” the possible “smoking gun” in the upcoming Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment case trial in the Senate…
THE Philippine Senate is supposed to be the upper chamber of sober reflection, constitutional restraint and national statesmanship. Today, however, it looks less like the Republic’s deliberative chamber and more…
THE PHILIPPINE Senate today looks less like the “august chamber” of constitutional and democratic deliberation and more like the main stage of a national political circus. At the center are…
THE latest International Criminal Court (ICC) spectacle in the Philippines is being marketed, predictably, as a grand morality play about accountability, justice and the rule of law. But scratch the…
While the world’s major powers are busy negotiating trade and managing geopolitical rivalries, the Philippines appears trapped in an entirely different reality show, one part political soap opera, one part…
The latest ICC spectacle in the Philippines is being marketed, predictably, as a grand morality play about accountability, justice, and the rule of law. But scratch the surface, it’s actually…
The latest International Criminal Court (ICC) drama in the Philippines is being sold, predictably, as a grand morality play about accountability, justice, and the rule of law. But scratch the…