Last Monday, I argued that without enforcement, accountability weakens and impunity thrives (see “How to contain dynasties,” 12/15/25). Dynasties endure not because corruption is hidden, but ...

The Senate approved last week a bill putting the national budget process on a digital platform in an effort to promote ...

In 2006, I had been living in Mexico as part of a yearlong youth missionary program. The original plan was to stay at the ...

One of the things that never fails to lift anyone’s spirits is taking unexpected breaks from the usual routine and touching ...

I write in response to Mr. Jake Maderazo’s column (see “Bogus ‘plunder’ narrative against Recto,” 12/4/25), which asserts that concerns over the P60-billion Philippine Health Insurance Corp.

The story is told about a little boy who looked worried when he came home from school. When asked by his dad why, he said: ...

Families in Bairan in Naga City, Cebu put up electric-powered decorations like parols — star-shaped Christmas lanterns — for ...

A few years ago, when the threat from COVID-19 had begun to recede, more and more elderly people reported being victimized by ...

Will it be the 20th Congress that will finally succeed in passing an anti-political dynasty bill that previous Congresses ...

If the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus, two millennia ago, only wanted a complete set of data about the population in Judea, ...

More than 10 years ago, at a national anticorruption forum, the room vibrated with anger. Filipinos from across the country ...