Why are others’ daddies and mommies married? Why are Daddy and Mommy siblings?” That was a question I remember having as a child. Soon I realized that Daddy and Mommy Tiya are siblings, and ...

Yesterday, Aug. 8, was the 40th anniversary of the legal registration in 1985 of Social Weather Stations (SWS) as a private, ...

A Grade 7 student in Baguio City recently died after slipping on the way home during heavy rain. It’s a heartbreaking tragedy made even more painful by the fact that it was preventable. As we mourn ...

In my mind’s eye, I see it clearly, the first day I entered a classroom as a teacher. That was almost four decades ago. Many ...

The moniker “the gods of Padre Faura” refers to the Supreme Court justices ensconced in the neoclassical building on Padre Faura St. in Ermita, Manila. The street is named after Spanish Jesuit ...

One might be forgiven for thinking that red-tagging has passed like an ill wind, its stink wafting away even as its progenitor, former president Rodrigo Duterte, is now awaiting trial at The Hague for ...

In Duterte v. House of Representatives, the Philippine Supreme Court ruled on what could be considered a political question that bears a legal question—whether the articles of impeachment filed by ...

Let’s give Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia’s Prime Minister, the credit when it is due. For a while, many were left wondering how he was going to bring together two angry ...

We have many things we want to do in our education system now more than ever. Sometimes, we want them to happen overnight. When the marching orders are given by the captain, the rest of the ship is ...

On Aug. 9, we join in celebrating the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. This year’s theme, “Indigenous Peoples and AI: Defending Rights, Shaping Futures,” is not only a ...

The Philippines’ 2023-2028 National Security Policy acknowledges a world undergoing significant and unprecedented ...

It’s called the “Streisand effect” — when essentially a bid to hide something ironically triggers more attention about the ...