Rash judgments, detraction, calumny
THEY often go together and we are very much prone to them. Thus, we have to be properly guarded, training ourselves to practice restraint...
Our politicians don’t understand realpolitik
THE RECENT spat between senators Rodante Marcoleta and Francis Pangilinan over the finer details of the West Philippine Sea and our Exclusive Economic Zone...
Why kill Lola Leonora in such a barbaric way?
SHE WAS old and frail at 74.
Yet Lola Leonora Anggit’s age and condition did not spare her from the brutal retaliation of the New...
The human rights situation: From Duterte until today, 2
Absent voices
A huge majority of the population — as much as 88 percent — continued to support him, knowing he was allowing suspects to...
The oldest human habit
FOR DECADES, paleoanthropologists have been interested about thin grooves found on the root surfaces of ancient human and Neanderthal teeth.
They believe these as evidence...
Bending without breaking the law
SOME LESSONS arrive quietly. I remember a fisherman from Carles, Manong Nardo, his palms rough as old rope. After Yolanda flattened their coast, he...
Are our flood control projects built to last — or built to fail?
WESTERN Visayas knows the sound of rising water all too well.
Every year, as tropical storms intensify and rainfall patterns grow more erratic, communities brace...
Tourism in the regions
“LOVE the Philippines.” “It’s More Fun in the Philippines.” “WOW Philippines.” These are just some of the tourism slogans the country has used to...
Let’s stop sand encroachment
SAND encroachment is a real problem in the Philippines, even if the government does not seem to realize it yet. And if it does...