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[OPINION] Drawing the line on sexual harassment in all-girls schools
I woke up today to my timeline exploding with the #MCHSDOBETTER hashtag. Current and former students from Miriam College High School (MCHS) were coming forward with stories of their high school...
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[OPINION] Ang pagbaba mula sa tore ng akademya
Higit na lumala ang masamang persepsyon ng publiko sa agham sa pagkapanalo ng mga populistang lider sa iba’t-ibang bansa sa mundo. Sa tingin ng marami, ang agham ay elitista – nakakubli sa tore ng...
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[ANALYSIS] Understanding the Ressa-Santos convictions
On June 15, 2020, the country saw the conviction of Rappler CEO and Executive Editor Maria Ressa and former researcher-writer Reynaldo Santos, Jr for cyber libel penalized under the Cybercrime...
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[ANALYSIS] The global significance of the Ressa-Santos convictions
It baffles us how issues so central to our existence (referring to libel as a crime, and freedom of speech and of the press as fundamental rights) can still be so polarizing. But the first part of this...
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[OPINION | Dash of SAS] A love letter to our jeepney drivers
In an essay I entered in a travel writing contest many years ago, I wrote that apart from visiting our beaches with sand as pillowy soft as baby powder and our dramatic sunsets that set the sky ablaze...
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[EDITORIAL] Pastilan! Bakit nauwi sa Cebuano-shaming ang krisis sa Cebu City?
Lapit, lapit, mga kaibigan! May “eksperto” sa Cebu at sabi niya, gamot sa COVID-19 ang tuob or steam inhalation! Sabi rin niya, “Hindi naman pala kasing bagsik ng inaasahan” ang virus at “mas delikado...
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[ANALYSIS] Leila de Lima's bail application
Professing her innocence, Senator De Lima filed on June 15, 2020 a Motion for Bail before the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court (RTC)-Branch 166 in Criminal Case No. 17-166 for alleged conspiracy to...
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[OPINION] On hoarding certificates from online courses and webinars
The idea for this article came from doing a whole lot of nothing. I was running laps on social media like a hamster in a wheel and finding the usual culprits of self-promotion, ironic protests, and...
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[ANALYSIS] The racial and genocidal underpinnings of the American Way of War
The US military command’s pushback against President Donald Trump’s attempt to use the military against people demanding racial justice has received a lot of good press. But let’s not overdo the...
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[OPINION] I can’t breathe: How racial justice is connected to climate justice
When we see society as structures of oppression rather than as clusters of people, it becomes easier to understand why the biggest battle is about changing how the system works instead of fashioning...
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[ANALYSIS] COVID-19 and civil-military relations in the PH: Getting the...
The following was first published in Analyzing War. The appointments of Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, Interior Secretary Eduardo Año, and Peace Process Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr as chair, vice...
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[EDITORIAL] Pastilan! Nganong nidangat sa pagpakauwaw sa Sugboanon ang krisis...
Dali mo sa duol, mga higala! Aduna’y “eksperto” sa Sugbo og ingon pa niya, tambal kuno sa COVID-19 ang tuob o steam inhalation! Matud pa usab niya, “Dili man diay kaayo kini makapatay, sukwahi sa...
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[OPINION] Beyond legalities and technicalities: How the court decision...
The verdict passed down last Monday, finding Ms Maria Ressa and Mr Reynaldo Santos, Jr of Rappler guilty of cyber libel has been very worrying, to say the least.On top of the passage of the Anti-Terror...
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[OPINION] We need to treat informal workers better from now on
A man in his late twenties tends to a bright yellow wooden cart, displaying assorted street food and plastic containers of spiced vinegar, outside the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman’s...
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[OPINION] Bakit walang forever? The impermanence of scientific knowledge
It’s now the 107th day of our stay-at-home order in Los Angeles, California. This means more video games than usual for my kids while my wife and I work from home. One of the games that my 14-year old...
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[OPINION] It’s okay – take that online course
I recently read Dr Del Castillo’s piece “On hoarding certificates from online courses and webinars,” and can’t help feeling a certain insecurity. Since April, I have been taking an online course,...
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[OPINION] Biting the hand that feeds you: Thoughts of a gov't worker under...
The painful part of being a government worker in the time of Duterte is that you are expected to be either neutral or loyal to your employer. At the same time, however, you owe it to yourself to speak...
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[ANALYSIS] Return to a bleak, not better normal
As the country enters a post-lockdown phase, the new normal for the economy, it seems, is not to "build back better."Rather, the thrust is just to return to pre-crisis levels of growth; enhanced...
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[OPINION] Harry’s rapture and the pandemic in our political leadership
Harry Roque was ecstatic the other day. He realized that June is ending and the number of COVID-19 cases in the country was still a couple of thousand less than what the UP modelers have forecasted. He...
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[OPINION | Just Saying] Judges should not take offense
Maria Ressa and Reynaldo Santos Jr’s conviction by the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 46 presided by Judge Rainelda H. Estacio-Montesa dismayed many. Criticisms were irreverent, some snarky,...
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