In rejecting the 25-year moratorium on mining imposed by Occidental Mindoro and one of its municipalities in areas within ...

Much has been talked, broadcast, forwarded, and written about Pope Leo XIV, the first American-born, Augustinian-educated, ...

Progress over perfection, as they say. The results of the 2025 midterm elections were far from what I expected, yet they were ...

Since 1930, when we enacted the Civil Registry Law, it’s been a requirement to register vital events such as births, deaths, marriages, annulments, divorces, legitimations, adoptions, ...

The traditional goal of most colleges and universities in the Philippines is to graduate all students and have a few of them place in the Top 10 of their national board examinations. I suggest ...

The story is told about two elderly men who met at the elevator. They sort of recognized each other, then one of them ...

Much of the analysis of the recent midterm elections has been retrospective. But to truly grasp the Filipino voter’s behavior, what we need are carefully designed postelection surveys using in-depth ...

A lot—meaning enough to cause statistically significant change—must have happened in the last week of the campaign. This is ...

There is a glimmer in the eyes of those who still remember: a flicker of something lost or something promised. This we saw on May 12, as the nation cast its votes in quiet pilgrimage to the ...

Virtually locked out in several surveys, former senators Bam Aquino and Kiko Pangilinan shocked even their camps by placing second and fifth, respectively, in the hotly contested senatorial race in ...

World Press Freedom Day (May 3) came and went. Weren’t we all so preoccupied with one thing or another so significant that ...