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Green vs greed? The Lopezes' new family saga
Regina "Gina" Paz Lopez is leading her entire clan in a familiar battle that involves politics and business. The quintessential Filipino business family is up against the mining industry this time.A...
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Pare, boss, dear and Pinoy culture
There has been a lot of analysis that social media has become a monster, what with fake news and trolling. It’s a bit like inviting the dumbest people and the worst perverts into your home via your...
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Graft and corruption in our everyday lives
Plunder is corruption writ large, and cronyism is graft at the highest levels. Alas, these social ills are so embedded in our politics that we think of them as being one and the same monster.But can we...
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Manny Pacquiao and the Bible
He has been criticized tremendously but Manny Pacquiao does not back down. That's what happens when you have a religious individual with the tenacity of an athlete joining the Senate.Many people might...
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STAKEOUT: Sino si Wally Sombero?
Habang isinusulat ko ito ay nakasalang si Wally Sombero sa Senado, sinasagot at sinasalag ang mga tanong na ibinabato ng mga senador kaugnay ng kasong inihain niya sa Ombudsman noong Disyembre 15,...
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Crackdown on immigrants: How not to go nuts with Trump in charge
She comes in on the train from the Chicago suburbs. I am not even sure what town it is, although she has told me often enough. Only the slight gray around her temple would betray her age. Lina could...
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Politics as an opium of the masses
“Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world,...
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#AnimatED: Justice according to Jose Calida
“My interest is to see to it that justice is done.” So said Solicitor General Jose Calida in defending his office's decision to move for the acquittal of Janet Napoles in a detention case for which she...
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Ang patotoo ng mga drug lord at kidnapper
Sukdulang nakababahala ang mga kaso nina Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II at President Rodrigo Duterte laban kay Senator Leila de Lima. Babuyan na ang sistema ng hustisya sa Pilipinas...
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[Newspoint] Duterte’s abridged war and peace
Rodrigo Duterte must have by now realized that, in spite of his high popularity and the vast forces under his command as president, he cannot impose his will on the nation as easily as he did on the...
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Let’s keep alternative facts away from policymaking
The Philippines is currently in the midst of a new, dangerous wave of policymaking: one that relies not so much on verifiable facts and data, but more on emotions, gut feeling, and beliefs. Of course,...
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To the man who told me to 'get the fuck out' of the U.S.
“Get the fuck out of my country you fucking immigrant!” yelled a man at me as he slowly drove by in his pickup truck.I paused in disbelief. There I was, dead in my tracks in the middle of a schoolyard...
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Making sense of a Dutertian legal gobbledygook
Like many, my immediate reaction to the “joint resolution” issued by the Department of Justice to provide legality to the drug charges against Senator Leila de Lima was to make fun of it. For the...
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Good science, due process and mining
Aristotle’s concept of the "golden mean" is one of the most practical moral concepts I have encountered. According to this ancient Greek philosopher, "Virtue is concerned with passions and actions, in...
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March, but mourn not the demise of EDSA Republic
The EDSA uprising was a memorable step in the Philippines’ struggle for democracy, and for this reason alone, it would be important to pencil it in as a red letter day for the country.Remembering the...
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Martin, ayaw intawon paka-ulawi ang mga Bisaya!
Naunsa na ba ka, Martin? Nasapnan nga but-buton ka man diay. Wa nimo matubag ang pangutana bahin sa kung kinsa’y tinubdan sa imong pasangil nga ang mga peryodista gitagaan kuno ug suburno sa kantidad...
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Martin, stop being an embarrassment to the Bisaya!
What is happening to you, Martin? You've been caught as a liar. You weren't able to answer the question about which journalists you were pointing to, claiming they were given $1,000 (dollars...
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STAKEOUT: 1986 People Power – Pagbabalik-tanaw
Eksaktong 31 taon ngayong araw, katanghaliang-tapat ng Sabado, nagsimulang turuan ng sambayanang Pilipino ang buong mundo kung paano ipaglaban ang demokrasiya’t kalayaan, sa isang matiwasay at walang...
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The essence of EDSA: Change begins with us
This was delivered at the Relevance of the 1986 EDSA People Power Today Forum, at the School of Economics Auditorium in UP Diliman on February 24, 2017.It has been 31 years since our people took to the...
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The fragility of democracy: Why we can’t just ‘move on’ from EDSA 1
More than 3 decades have passed since EDSA 1. But have we Filipinos truly imbibed the democratic ideals and norms that EDSA 1 restored?If you ask the current government, we’ve learned our lessons so...
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