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The mystique of impunity

Sen. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa, the former chief of the Philippine National Police under former…

Is national progress a sport?

Why do pundits never tire of complaining, “There was a time, long ago, when we…

Accountability in Senate ‘shooting’

Using CCTV footage solicited from several sources, the Department of the Interior and Local Government…

The loss of conscience and soul

Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano and Sen. Loren Legarda have been at the receiving end of…

Principle

The coalition of the charged—those actually charged, facing charges, or related by affinity to those…

Senate self-destruction

It took them decades to build the integrity of the Senate,” captions a collage of…

Unfriending over politics

Political disagreements have always existed. As the daughter of an Ilocano Marcos loyalist (my dad)…

The law they forgot they passed 

Some laws are ahead of their time. Their enactment may have been initially performative—intended primarily…

Measuring the middle class

Increasing the size of the middle class is said to be a national objective for…

The fiction of ‘protective custody’

Scripted or not, the chaos at the Senate Wednesday night begs thorough investigation and should…