Opinion
Instituting lies
In my over half a century as a journalist—and I have gone full circle in print, radio and television—I have...
Spending for the poor
I think efforts to hide the poor and to cover up the stink, the grime, and the unsightly are futile...
Roxas and Tolentino abused their authority
A day before the arrival of Pope Francis in the Philippines, overzealous government officials led by Interior Secretary Mar Roxas...
Two DAPs: one noble, one ignoble
One day in the mid-1970s, I received a call from the office of the then chairman of the Development Bank...
Soliman’s brazen lies
WHAT must we do with a Cabinet secretary who shamelessly lies to the public in the belief that she can...
Absolute and conditional
Erap keeps his seat, this, in the wake of widespread speculation that the justices of the Supreme Court were poised...
Making better men
The joke is that if the country’s top crime lords “in session assembled” in Bilibid will band under one umbrella,...
Metro Manila’s street children
While millions of Filipinos are still nurturing a Pope Francis fever after having been touched by his holy presence and...
A day in the life
Vilma clocks out of her barangay tanod duties at 5 am one Monday morning, only to be called back to...
Even rich nations face climate ‘danger zone,’ report says
By Stefan Nicola With prospects of containing global warming slipping away, a team of scientists urged policymakers to redouble their...
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