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Ambassador Tar Baby

Since 2006, I’ve periodically returned to a scene straight out of Walt Disney’s “Song of…

Two valid IDs

Worse than being poor is being treated as if one did not exist. In today’s…

The econometrics of self-rated poverty

Here are two scientific facts: (1) poverty as experienced by Filipino families has been stubbornly…

Early bird in the Senate race

This early, former Finance Undersecretary Cielo Magno has served notice of her intention to run…

Undiplomatic rhetoric

Sen. Robin Padilla profusely praised Chinese Ambassador Jing Quan after they met at a function…

Working despite itself (2)

Following the money meant that when former President Joseph Estrada fell, no one was prepared…

When justice is beyond reach

The deaths of two indigenous farmers in Alabel, Sarangani, should trouble us for more than…

When the joke punches down

My first experience of the “happiest place on Earth” was in 2000, when my family…

A case for all PWDs

All it took was a 26-second clip to expose an uncomfortable truth: society’s default setting…

Big and little histories coexist

Big history is about the bigwigs, who are few and identifiable, while little history is…