The Year of Breaking Up Badly

The Year of Breaking Up Badly

A year of political spectacle has a powerful political family at the losing end.

Read More

Ferdie and Ninoy, Brothers at Odds

Ferdie and Ninoy, Brothers at Odds

A fraternity brother thinks Ninoy Aquino wouldn’t have thought that the dictator personally ordered his assassination.

Read More

Senator Risa Hontiveros: Mother Courage

Senator Risa Hontiveros: Mother Courage

Find out what makes opposition leader and velvet-gloved fiscalizer Senator Risa Hontiveros tick.

Read More

The Stories Behind The Million-Dollar Donation

The Stories Behind The Million-Dollar Donation

Speaker Romualdez has neither confirmed nor denied the reported $1 million donation, which amounts to around 10% of his declared total net worth as of 2016.

Read More

Lingering Doubts About the 2022 Philippine Presidential Election

Lingering Doubts About the 2022 Philippine Presidential Election

Was the election of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. last year achieved through digital manipulation?

Read More

Does the Philippine Constitution Really Need Changing?

Does the Philippine Constitution Really Need Changing?

What’s behind Filipino lawmakers’ push to revise the Philippines’ 1987 Constitution?

Read More

Marking EDSA at 37

Marking EDSA at 37

For a filmmaker, the week of the 37th EDSA People Power Revolution commemorations, was a roller coaster of emotions

Read More

Leila de Lima after six years in prison

Leila de Lima after six years in prison

Find out why columnist Randy David thinks women are better warriors for democracy than men.

Read More

2022 in the Philippines: Transit to Uncertainty

2022 in the Philippines: Transit to Uncertainty

The jury is still out on whether six months later, real change is actually on the horizon or, perhaps, even possible at all.

Read More

The Marcoses and the United States

The Marcoses and the United States

Find out why Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., the late dictator’s namesake and now the Philippines’ new president, made sure that the highlight of his visit to the UN would be a meeting with US President Joe Biden.

Read More