No Free Lunch

Servant leadership personified

Countless people who knew or worked with Aniceto “Chito” Sobrepeña are still in shock and…

The perennially notorious LTO

I’ve long described the Land Transportation Office as an agency that has made an art…

Constructive citizenship in 2026

In this season for New Year’s resolutions, we might as well do ours with the…

Fixing a broken Philippines

It seems that the dreams with which Jose Rizal died exactly 129 years ago at…

Plugging the poverty gap

About one in 10 (10.9 percent, or 3 million) Filipino families were poor in 2023.…

Drags and drivers in 2025

Hardly anyone would disagree that 2025 has been the worst year for our economy since…

Wanted: More anger

Are Filipinos angry enough to demand accountability and justice for the massive corruption now in…

What are we best at?

We constantly hear about how we as a country are the worst, or near the…

Curing our cancer of corruption

The country today feels like a patient battling an aggressive cancer—corruption that has already metastasized…

Our regional disparities

At least five interesting facts come out when you examine the economic data across our…