They don’t have to say it out loud. I’ve learned to recognize the silence. Every time a professor mentions “Isis,” “Abu Sayyaf,” or “al-Qaeda,” I can feel the glances, the subtle ...
While this week’s occurrence in the West Philippine Sea is no longer surprising, it remains brazen, menacing, and deeply alarming. On Oct. 12, Chinese Coast Guard (CCG) and Chinese Maritime ...
Hardly have “nepo babies” faded from social media posts, when a video of another form of toxic entitlement went viral over ...
Most “old” people use artificial intelligence, or AI, like Google. They ask a question, AI answers. That is the simplest, most basic use of a tool that is slowly shaping our lives, whether we ...
For the millions of Filipinos who had writhed in sorrow and survived the virulent enemy that roared through their lives, may justice come down at last like a cooling rain. And may the guilty who ...
The Catholic Bishops‘ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has encouraged the faithful to wear white on Sundays. As Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David remarked in a recent letter, white symbolizes ...
Typhoon “Opong,” which hit Masbate, unveiled one painfully clear truth: our so-called Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Councils have become little more than bureaucratic deadweight. The ...
Against the stupefying sums now routinely being mentioned in connection with anomalous flood control and other infrastructure projects — P1 trillion possibly lost to corruption in the past 15 years, ...
It so happened that our module on existential psychotherapy coincided with the students’ “hell week,” when requirements start ...
Walking through the streets of Masbate just two days after Typhoon Bualoi or Opong struck the province last month, I saw my hometown as I had never seen it before: roofless houses, toppled powerlines, ...
This was the message Pete Hegseth, head of the newly branded Department of War, delivered to the highest-ranking personnel of the United States Armed Forces, many of whom had to leave their posts ...