Reading between the Senate votes
IT DID NOT take a clairvoyant to read the room this election season. The 2025 senatorial results, still humming in partial tallies but clear...
Luck or logic, 2
ON A MORE intimate note, some beliefs center on health, like the traditional post-birth seclusion of mothers and newborns, our version of "confinement." In...
Luck or logic, 1
SUPERSTITIONS, a fundamental part of Filipino culture, live in daily routines, whether skipping the ladder on a sidewalk or avoiding that rogue black cat...
The power of wise choices
CHOOSING the right political candidate is more than shading a name on a ballot. For many of us, it carries hope, responsibility, and moral...
Let logic guide our votes
THERE WAS something poetic about learning logic in the 1990s at 5 p.m., with the sun yawning over the University of Iloilo’s old engineering...
Why do we vote the way we do?, 2
EDUCATION is key to shifting voter behavior. A 2019 Philippine Institute for Development Studies report found that higher education levels correlated with issue-based voting...
Why do we vote the way we do?, 1
PHILIPPINE elections are a spectacle of catchy jingles, celebrity endorsements, and grand campaign rallies. But beyond the confetti and slogans lies a complex voter...
Beyond red robes
IN A TIME when the world once again looks to the Sistine Chapel for divine smoke signals — this time following Pope Francis's passing...
What must a senator be?
NAME recall may be enough if we elect someone to regulate pedicab fares or rename a porch in a barangay sitio. But when we...
Beyond the ‘Balota’
SITTING with a tub of popcorn in front of my iPad, ready to watch another movie, I had no idea Balota would shake me...