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[OPINION] Shame is not my name
Not all secrets must be kept.Growing up, I was taught that there is no need to live in secret if you are not committing anything wrong to yourself or to other people. But there was one instance in my...
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[OPINION] How it's like to live with albinism
My elder brother and I are albinos.We have a hereditary genetic condition where our body does not produce enough melanin, which is responsible for the pigmentation in our body. I can talk more about...
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[OPINION] The shading threshold in Marcos v. Robredo
When the Filipino people voted on election day of May 9, 2016, they voted by shading an oval next to the name of the candidate they chose to vote for. Most of us fully shaded those ovals. Some, for one...
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[OPINION] Vigilantism: Crime or justice?
"Vigilantism" or "vigilante justice" seems to be the new specter that is haunting political systems and societies all over the world. Instead of courts deciding who is culpable and who is innocent or...
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[OPINION] Making sure opioids get lost in the mail
Like all drug scourges, the fentanyl epidemic that claims so many lives on a daily basis is a matter of supply and demand. The demand, alas, is made in America. The supply, by contrast, is...
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[OPINION] To the father I once hated
My clearest childhood memory is when my parents decided to break up. I was only 6. I can clearly remember waking up from all the noise they made as they quarreled about something. I cried as Mama tried...
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[OPINION] Myanmar is now erasing the Rohingya's very name
The tragedy of the Rohingya Muslims of Burma began with the forced expulsion of more than a half-million Rohingya people from northern Rakhine state to neighboring Bangladesh, a brutal army operation...
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[OPINION] To respectfully differ with Defense Secretary Lorenzana
We had read with a heavy heart the interview of Secretary Delfin Lorenzana in which he declared "President Duterte was handling the Philippine maritime row in the South China Sea very well," while...
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[OPINION] The Philippines' scourge of killers on motorbikes
On June 10, in the northern Philippine province of Nueva Ecija, Father Richmond Nilo of Zaragoza town was preparing for Mass when an unidentified gunman killed him. A few days earlier, on June 7, an...
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[EDITORIAL]: #AnimatED: Drenched in God’s blood
Thirteen Filipino priests have been killed in 44 years – from the time tyrant Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law in 1972 to the time former president Benigno Aquino III ended his term in 2016. Under...
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[OPINION] Why is the Philippine peso the weakest in ASEAN?
On June 14 the Philippine peso reached a new record low: trading closed at P53.3 per US dollar, the weakest it has been in 12 years.But not only is the peso unusually weak over time, it is also now...
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[OPINION] Whoppers vs 'truth sandwiches'
Last week was a particularly rough one for journalists and truth-seeking citizens.President Donald Trump declared the news media the nation's worst enemy. And time after shocking time, his acolytes...
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[OPINION] Living within the truth
(Editor's Note: Below is the full text of Dean Jose Manuel Diokno's keynote address at the AIESEC YouthSpeak Forum on Sunday, June 17.)Our world is flooded with information. From the time we get up...
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[OPINION] Why the hate on the homeless?
I can’t remember a time when reportage on issues concerning the urban poor and homeless have not been largely slanted against their favor in some way. Floods, pollution, a slow economy, crime and even...
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[OPINION] Duterte and the defensive Catholic Church
He’s at it again.That the Catholic Church is his target is of course not new.When he introduced himself as a presidential candidate, he took aim at no less than Pope Francis for causing traffic in...
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[OPINION] Manila: Black Panther to the rescue? If only.
Los Angeles, USA– This May at the annual Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles, the theme could well have been tailor-made for Metro Manila. Our topic: “Navigating a world in transition”.As...
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Basagan ng Trip with Leloy Claudio: Catholic faith responses to political crisis
MANILA, Philippines – The Catholic Church has always played a key role in historic junctures in our national life – like the bloodless 1986 People Power revolution.History teacher Leloy Cladio talks...
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[OPINION] An open letter to my fellow college students who didn't graduate on...
This piece was first published on HeyHersheyBlog.com and is being republished here with the author's permission.Dear fellow students who didn’t graduate on time,I know scrolling through your Facebook...
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[OPINION] Tambayanan: A nation of bystanders
We are a nation of tambays. From the shirtless men who while away their time in their favorite sari-sari store to hipster millennials hanging out in Cubao X, the idea of tambay (a contraction of the...
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[OPINION] I do not believe in coming out
It has been 8 years since I identified myself as gay yet I still do not have a coming out story, nor have I thought of having one. I never felt compelled to come out and never saw it necessary in order...
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