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[OPINION] Why Duterte can’t get rid of Trillanes
In a recent interview, Honeylet Avancena, the President’s partner, posed the question, “If, as they say, President Duterte is responsible for all those murders, how come Trillanes is still alive?”The...
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Investigating Duterte: Pinochet and Nuremberg as precedents
Conclusion(Part 1: Ombudsman has power to probe Duterte for mass murders)In a 6 -1 judgment, the UK House of Lords held that the late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet did not enjoy immunity from...
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Demand accountability for the postponement of barangay election
Barely 3 weeks before the scheduled elections, and after the Commission on Elections (Comelec) had spent P700 million in its preparations, President Rodrigo Duterte signed Republic Act 10952 on October...
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#FridayFeels: Kain, tulog, or both?
Sa wakas, B’yernes na naman! Tatambay ako sa bahay.Pero araw ay mabilis,Baka weekend di masulit. Aatupagin ang hobbies,Sa oras, magiging wais.In the end, aking hangarin:Mapagsabay tulog-kain. –...
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The police's menace of guns, power, and machismo
I boarded the owner-type jeep with the male tabloid reporters. The photographers were in another vehicle. We followed the policemen's car, also an owner-type jeep, with the male suspect seated in the...
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[Newspoint] One very insecure president
Rodrigo Duterte obviously feels very insecure in his presidency. Enough evidence of that may have shown on just one occasion, a few days ago, at the Integrated Bar convention, after he chucked his...
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Lorenzo Tañada undaunted in line of fire
(There was a time when our leaders were made of sterner stuff. Given the current composition and actuations of members of the executive and of Congress, the traditional breeding ground of our...
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Duterte’s shift toward China threatens ASEAN centrality
The feeble stance of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on the South China Sea in the past has been made even weaker by the sudden shift of Philippine foreign policy under the Duterte...
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Small nations, big lessons
The story of Asia today remains very much one driven by its largest nations and economies. An increasingly assertive China, a slow-growing Japan, a rising India, and a still emerging Indonesia are...
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#AnimatED: When Duterte is backed into a corner
We had wondered in the past several days how any more unpresidential President Rodrigo Duterte could get. And we are not talking about his potty mouth or his compulsion to tell lies. We seem to all...
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Narcissistic personality disorder
People have been asking me recently about this personality disorder. So I thought this might be a good opportunity to explain about one type of mental illness.A personality disorder is a mental...
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Rethinking religious education
Religious education is in a conundrum. While teachers might take it seriously, students most of the time have a different opinion.Part of the problem has to do with emphasis. Relative to mathematics,...
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Understanding the big drop in President Duterte’s ratings
Cracks are beginning to show in President Duterte’s image as a “populist” strongman.The latest quarterly survey of the Social Weather Stations (SWS) revealed a precipitous 18 percentage-point drop in...
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What I learned from being featured by the Duterte online machine
I have spent most of the last decade working with and among inspiring leaders from urban poor communities on various issues like housing, health, and gender-based violence. I have also spent the last...
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[Dash of SAS] Teen widows: the growing legacy of Duterte’s drug war
Jazmine and Toto were sleeping with their month-old daughter, Hazel, between them when the masked men kicked in the flimsy door of their patchwork home. Two men pulled Toto by the hair and dragged him...
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Basagan ng Trip with Leloy Claudio: On 'The Duterte Reader' and identifying...
MANILA, Philippines – In this episode of "Basagan ng Trip," historian and professor Lisandro "Leloy" Claudio invites sociologist Nicole Curato, whose book The Duterte Reader: Critical Essays on...
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A trio of great patriots and leaders: Wash Sycip, Dina Abad, Fr Archie Intengan
This past week, the country lost 3 great leaders: businessman Washington Sycip, 96 years old; activist and educator Henedina Abad, 62 years with us; and Jesuit priest and revolutionary Fr Archie...
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#FridayFeels: Friday the 13th
"The only sure thing about luck is that it will change." – Bret Harte– Rappler.comArtwork by Janina Malinis#FridayFeels is a cartoon series by the Rappler Creatives Team. Cathartic, light, but...
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[Newspoint] Abnormal evolution of justice
The case against Senator Leila de Lima is an abnormal one – abnormal in the way it was put together, abnormal in the way it's been proceeding: It was initiated by President Rodrigo Duterte, it was...
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The real score on foreign investments in the time of Duterte
Senator Frank Drilon shocked the nation by claiming, during one of the budget hearings last week, that new foreign direct investments (FDI) plunged by 90.3% in the first half of 2017, compared to the...
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