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Recognizing and exiting our troubled times
From the Middle East to the West Philippines Sea, the world has found itself in troubled and troubling times. The rhetoric intensifies in the US election process as do words from Manila about the...
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Can students of different grade levels learn together in a class?
Public elementary schools in many remote areas have few students because they are in communities with only a small number of families. Oftentimes, these schools combine pupils of different grade levels...
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Death squads: An incomplete history
Amid all the inconsistencies of President Duterte’s foreign policies, his domestic program has remained consistent, focused on the war on drugs and his signature approach: the use of local government...
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The anguish of the Fil-Am in the age of Digong Duterte
It must be very hard to be an American-Filipino – immigrant, but with dual citizenships, suburbanite, and a Rodrigo Duterte voter these days.For one, Digong challenges their American souls. Having...
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New poverty data: Is poverty falling fast enough?
(UPDATED) This week the government announced a monumental achievement in the country’s fight against poverty. As of 2015, only 1 in 5 Filipinos can be considered poor (or 21.6% of the population).This...
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[DASH of SAS] Brown is the color of my skin and passport
“I’ve never met a Filipino who could travel before,” he said, looking at me with interest.It was many years ago. I was in a restaurant in Tel Aviv sitting with a group of overseas Filipino workers...
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[Newspoint] The mouse that roared
One’s moment on the world stage – that was the opportunity that proved too good to pass up for Rodrigo Duterte in China. And so, like the compulsive performer he is, he seized the opportunity, and...
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The hate, the love, the Fil-Am, and the Digong supporter
Part 1: The anguish of the Fil-Am in the age of Digong Duterte(Part 2) So how can the American-Filipino Duterte supporter get out of this rut that he has found himself?Some threaten that if the...
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#AnimatED: Grief in a time of terror
Tears, rather than words, come to us as we remember the dead, those killed in President Duterte’s war on drugs and those slain as a result of this environment of murder. A horrific war gone rogue. And...
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Carol Araullo's rebuttal on issues surrounding Oslo talks
It is unfortunate that Mr. Edwin G. Espejo, a member of the GRP Peace Panel Communications Group, chose to write a riposte to my opinion piece by selecting certain parts which he rebuts rather than...
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Friends in need, friends indeed
The recent visits of President Duterte to China and Japan suddenly found many netizens wading into geopolitics regardless of how little or how much one understood its impact on our lives. Take the...
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The Scarborough vivendi
The restoration of Filipino fishers' access to Bajo de Masinloc (Scarborough Shoal) is a direct result of President Rodrigo Duterte's high-profile pivot to China. News reports over the past few days...
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Ramos, Duterte, and the Paris Agreement
In recent days, we have read about President Fidel V. Ramos upset at President Rodrigo Duterte on the latter’s apparent rejection of the Paris Agreement because of concern that it would limit our...
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[Newspoint] Vox Duterte, vox Dei
Now, Rodrigo Duterte is hearing things.Flying home last week from his state visit to Japan, he heard the voice of God warning him, on pain of death by plane crash, about his habitual cussing. He...
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There are bigger battles outside the Paris Agreement
We write with regard to the resurgence of debate on President Rodrigo Duterte’s ambivalence over the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, as it comes in a time when deeper public discourse and action on...
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Paris Agreement enters into force: Celebration and reality check
Humanity will look back on November 4, 2016, as the day that countries of the world shut the door on inevitable climate disaster and set off with determination towards a sustainable future.The Paris...
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The curious case of the Mocha Uson blog
I was one of those who did not sign the petition to suspend the Mocha Uson Facebook page. While I agreed with the petition that the page did spread "unsupported claims" and widened "the rift between...
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Part 1: Hillary versus Da Donald: New critical realignment?
Part 2: Hillary and Donald: American politics into the abyss?In 1955, VO Key wrote the piece, "A Theory of Critical Elections", to describe a groundbreaking shift in party politics and policy-making....
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Déjà vu: Why I am strongly against our signing the Paris climate deal
On the Paris Climate Agreement, I beg to disagree with the assertion that it is a milestone on the way to stopping or slowing down climate change. This is propaganda. The reality is that this is a deal...
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The Supreme Court on Ferdinand Marcos, 1989
Flashback to 27 years ago: Marcos vs. Manglapus, G.R. No. 88211, September 15, 1989, 177 SCRA 668. It is the Philippine Supreme Court (SC) decision that law students are taught and recite on regarding...
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