Now that all my dating apps are uninstalled, I don’t have it in me to be ashamed of admitting I’ve had my fair (borderline desperate) share of window shopping for potential significant others.

It was exactly 60 years ago, in the depths of winter like it is now, and I wasn’t the only one who took it. Everyone of my batch in graduate economics at the University of Chicago was taking Money ...

The 1987 Constitution created the party list system to fix a basic unfairness in Philippine politics: if you’re poor, landless, or outside powerful families, getting into Congress is nearly ...

Many years ago, I advised teachers in a seminar to add map reading in their Araling Panlipunan classes because many Gen Z ...

Dear Randy, I read your recent reflection on your 80th birthday with the keen interest of a man who has already cleared that ...

When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, or terrorize women, you destroy the essential energy on the planet.”—from “The Vagina Monologues” by Eve Ensler. Tomorrow is V-Day. V is for ...

The sad picture painted by recent data is impossible to ignore: billionaires are now 4,000 times more likely to hold political office than ordinary citizens. In the Philippines, this isn’t an ...

The latest word is that the Senate blue ribbon committee report on its investigation into anomalous flood control projects will be revised. No longer will the final draft recommend that charges be ...

Some of our senators cannot hide their latent obeisance to China in the West Philippine Sea dispute. In confronting China over territorial claims, they give China the benefit of the doubt while ...

We owe the Second Congressional Commission on Education (Edcom 2) our thanks for its third and final report and, more broadly, for the work it has done in the last four years. During a distressing ...

Last Dec. 18, 2025, the Professional Regulation Commission announced that 65.04 percent, or 79,696 out of 122,528 examinees, passed the Licensure Exam for Teachers (LET). This is a huge number of new ...