VIEWPOINTS | What is legal is not necessarily moral

BY OSCAR CRUZ Sunday, June 25, 2017   IT IS NOT merely a question of what is legal.  The right question is what is ethically upright and...

EDITORIAL | Fake news

Saturday, June 24, 2017 FAKE news is nothing new. In the Philippine context, it was done by Spaniards and the American forces in branding Katipuneros as...

BENEATH & BEYOND | The fighting president

BY SONIA D. DAQUILA Saturday, June 24, 2017       SINCE the ratification of the Philippine Constitution 30 years ago, no one from among the Philippine presidents ever...

NO FILTER | Arts and letters

BY RHICK LARS VLADIMER ALBAY Saturday, June 24, 2017     WORDS can be beautiful on their own. Certain words like “eventually,” evoking waiting and longing; “surreal” stirring...

BULATLAT PERSPECTIVE | The war that refuses to go away

By BENJIE OLIVEROS Saturday, June 24, 2017 THE BATTLE for control of Marawi City has been going on for a month already, and there is still...

PAUTWAS! | Sa diin na si Richard Prevendido?

BY JOEL FRANCO Saturday, June 24, 2017 KAANGAY lang nga nagapangita sang dagum sa dagami. Ini ang paglaragway sang kabudlay sa pagpangita sa No. 1 Philippine Drug...

RAMBLINGS OF THE UNMARRIED | Wedding ritual

BY GORDON Q. GUILLERGAN Saturday, June 24, 2017   “The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue....

EDITORIAL | Going beyond planting

Friday, June 23, 2017   THIS JUNE 25, a Sunday, is Arbor Day in the Philippines. This has been institutionalized throughout the nation by planting trees...

JUST ANOTHER DAY | Irrelevant and obsolete

BY LUIS BUENAFLOR JR. Friday, June 23, 2017   MOST things in this planet have a shelf life, meaning nothing last forever. Some things may have been...

MORE VITAL THAN EVER | Who are ISIS?    

BY EDGARDO J. ANGARA Friday, June 23, 2017   NEARLY a month already passed since terrorists attacked Marawi City, once a bucolic lakeside green city and home...