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The perils of American exceptionalism 

Over the eight decades since the end of the Second World War, an international order…

Accidental Catholic

I was born to Protestant parents and duly baptized. By 1948, we were living in…

Burying lives under complacency

Tragically, the affected barangay lived up to its name in the disastrous collapse of a…

A superpower gone rogue

Every day, we see a new scene of violence in the United States committed by…

Cybercrimes now ‘more diabolical’

Filipinos have taken to digital payments like a duck to water, so much so that…

‘Sleepwalkers’: Is Sara presidency inevitable?

LONDON—One of the greatest handicaps of our democratic life is the poverty of our political…

When ignoring is the best response

At the end of every year, the Oxford University Press shortlists different words that represent…

Mission in tandem

The story is told about two men riding tandem on a bicycle made for two,…

Persistent poverty

The latest percentage of households rating themselves as Mahirap/Poor was 51, as of the end…

Land of beauty queens under siege

Scratch your head if this sounds like a forced oxymoronic juxtaposition of seemingly unrelated realities:…