The story is told about a flight attendant who announced that there were only 40 dinner packs for the 140 passengers onboard ...

When one or two families dominate politics, it is not only democracy that weakens. Family life itself begins to fray. We are seeing this today in the very public and increasingly ugly conflict between ...

Bawal ang magkasakit,” so goes a TV commercial. This is true in the Philippines where health care costs are among the highest in Asia, making them unaffordable for many Filipinos that there are ...

My research, as a social scientist on the subject of human well-being and the quality of life, has been highly involved with ...

The night the river rose, the emergency room became a waiting room for the country’s failures. Children arrived shivering, their shirts sour with canal water. A pregnant woman clutched a bag of ...

Philippine education is in trouble, and we do not need another international ranking to confirm it. Anyone who has stepped ...

Two colossal exposés were detonated like nuclear bombs in our country’s political field in the past few days. They were ...

The Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) held its second rally for the year, a supposed three-day “Rally for Transparency and a Better ...

At least five interesting facts come out when you examine the economic data across our 18 regions. One, Metro Manila ...

At 19, my sister was supposed to be discovering life, not mourning the one she never got to bring into the world. In the ...

The Magna Carta, Latin for “Great Charter” is a foundational document for democracy, in that it forced tyrannical kings—beginning with King John 1 in year 1215 AD—to submit to the rule of law, ...

Last week, I was one of the speakers at Luntiang Tinta, a community-based workshop organized by the Knowledge Sharing ...