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Caution needed on eVisa program

Have we not learned anything from the Alice Guo caper? The former Bamban, Tarlac mayor…

Once again: What ‘kidnapping’?

From that fateful day in March this year when former President Rodrigo Duterte was arrested…

Jerrold Tarog’s ‘Quezon’

Jerrold Tarog’s long-awaited “Quezon” did not disappoint. As a matter of fact, it exceeded my…

Z-aspirations, Z-asperations 

When I did my column last week (see “Gen Z fever,” 10/14/25) about the increasingly…

The problem with VIP treatment

The term “public servant” carries a certain moral expectation that those who enter government office…

‘Manananggal’, ghosts haunt DOH

Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa couldn’t have picked a more fitting symbol for the public works…

Prayer power

The story is told about a lawyer who encountered a crowd in an intersection. Wanting…

The quiet accusation

They don’t have to say it out loud. I’ve learned to recognize the silence. Every…

Skewed sense of entitlement

Hardly have “nepo babies” faded from social media posts, when a video of another form…

Revelations of the recent ICC decision

One of the most awaited pretrial decisions of the International Criminal Court’s Pre-Trial Chamber I,…