Lonely at the top
LAST June 19, President Rodrigo Duterte accepted the credentials of the new foreign diplomats in the Philippines. New ambassadors from Canada, Iran, Palestine, Vietman,...
How they solved a problem like Maria
THE MANILA regional trial court has convicted Rappler’s Maria Ressa and Reynaldo Santos, Jr., of violation of Republic Act No. 10175, otherwise known as...
The Iceman cometh
IN JULY last year, or three years into drug war launched by the Philippine government, the United Nations Human Rights Council requested its High...
Corpus de Lima
FOUR centuries ago, three people were publicly executed in England following their confession to murder.
The executions raised a public howl after the confession turned...
Will divorce bills prosper?
LAST February 5, a month before the country went on lockdown, the committee on family relations of the House of Representatives approved House Bill No....
Fundamental rights are non-negotiable
ON MAY 5, 2020, teacher Ronnel Mas posted on Twitter: “I will give 50 million reward kung sino makakapatay kay Duterte.”
Six days later he...
Naked display of political power
MAY THE National Telecommunications Commission grant ABS-CBN provisional authority to operate in the meantime that its franchise has expired, and its renewal is pending...
When lawyers are afraid
ACTIVIST Jory Porquia, Bayan Muna Iloilo coordinator, was shot dead by at least four unidentified armed men in his rented home at Arevalo in...
Conduct becoming of a troll
WHEN you find a dead cockroach served with
your pancit canton, do you not have the right to complain and the right to be
heard by...
The fourth horseman
“I SAW, and look! A pale
horse, and the one seated on it had the name Death. And the Grave was closely
following him. And authority...