The Long View

Forthwith in Filipino time

When Sara Z. Duterte became the first vice president to be impeached, what was even…

Not friends, not partners, not even allies

The story goes something like this. When Roberto Romulo, who was a former IBM executive…

Old rules no longer apply

The waning power of the mainstream, mass, or traditional media is best demonstrated by the…

Moderate your greed

That was a saying popularized—or made notorious—by Jun Lozada, expressing an exasperation with officials since…

The party list mutation

Whatever is left of our political creativity is being expressed—and wasted—in the party list. It…

Broker nation

Think of the many ways modernity has been entering our lives. Then consider that for…

Dispatch from South Korea (3)

There is a startling similarity between the session halls of the South Korean National Assembly…

Dispatch from South Korea (2)

When President Yoon addressed his countrymen on the day he was due to be impeached,…

Dispatch from South Korea (1)

South Korea is a very neat and clean country, but in public spaces, trash cans…

Plus two minutes

Pierre Trudeau, father of Canada’s current prime minister, famously observed, “The essential ingredient of politics…