Over the past months, I’ve been fortunate to experience the joy of solo travel, both abroad and local. This opportunity also gave me the privilege to meet random Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) who ...

In the wake of massive public outrage over revelations of astounding levels of corruption in flood control projects, a ...

The convening of the 20th Congress offers a vital opportunity to address long-standing social and economic inequities in the Philippines. At a time when public trust in institutions remains fragile, ...

May I congratulate you on your recent assignment as the Israeli ambassador to the Philippines and welcome you warmly to our country. Israel and the Philippines have shared a special relationship over ...

The American author Mark Twain quipped that history does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes. With European economies promising to up their defense expenditure to 5 percent of GDP, are we repeating ...

While Filipino historian Reynaldo C. Ileto is best known for his landmark book “Pasyon and Revolution: Popular Movements in the Philippines” (1979), I prefer his essays, which bring obscure ...

In the quaint language of the press, they would have been known as “rugby boys,” “kanto boys,” “batang kalye,” or “batang ...

Our nation, predominantly Catholic and deeply rooted in Christian values, grapples with a pervasive problem that casts a long ...

Nothing has struck the Filipino public more indelibly in recent months than the optics: bundles of thousand-peso bills ...

I sat next to one of our youngest lectors at our parish ministry meeting last weekend. She is in her last two years of ...

For the first time in its modern history, the United States faces a formidable rival: a China that is fast outpacing it. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991, the US emerged as the ...