The Long View

The populist pope

The Vatican watcher Andrea Gagliarducci, who writes the must-read blog MondayVatican.com, said that the reckoning…

Breakout

Every administration is a coalition often involving many partners. The Duterte coalition included the Macapagals…

Ahead of the curve

I’ve heard some quarters express frustration with our government for its perceived lack of a…

The passing of opportunity

Nothing in Filipino time is ever precise, but it may later be written that the…

Reassuring Manila

The visit of the new United States Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, is a feather in…

The long goodbye

I have been convinced for a long time that the only thing in the end…

The last hurrah

There are no secrets (not for very long, anyway) in the Philippines. So much so…

Hard bargains

That exemplar of partnership with America, Winston Churchill, in a moment of retrospective reflection, once…

Lawfare

The late scholar Benito Legarda Jr. once told me the question of collaboration during World…

Musk the destroyer

The saying goes that the private sector is fast because it’s imperative is to turn…