The story is told about a lawyer who encountered a crowd in an intersection. Wanting to get to the accident scene, he persistently made his way through the crowd, shouting: “Let me through! I am a ...
Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa couldn’t have picked a more fitting symbol for the public works corruption that has permeated even the health sector. During an inspection this week in Marikina ...
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting,” wrote the Czech novelist Milan Kundera. Forgetting has always been one of our nation’s gravest afflictions. We ...
Living the Statistics of P64/Day,” was last Monday’s topic for discussion by a panel formed by the Ateneo de Manila’s council of [college-student] organizations. I was invited ...
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 ...
Kuala Lumpur–Artificial intelligence (AI) not only profoundly reshapes human lifestyle but also wields far-reaching influences on the running of businesses. Put it this way, no one—an ...
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, ...