The massive scale of the flood control corruption scandal appears to have distracted the administration’s economic managers ...

United States President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order assuring the global dominance of the US in artificial intelligence through deregulation and the preemption of state AI laws.

The Department of Education (DepEd) mandates that 205 school days should be strictly devoted to classroom learning. In reality, schools rarely reach this target due to class suspensions caused by ...

Not everything performative is negative. I have described the way in which our coast guard punches way above its weight as “performative martyrdom,” because essentially that is what its mission ...

We watched the bar results live on television, my family clustered around the screen under the polite fiction that we were ...

I’ve been told that there is no use “crying over spilled milk.” While scrolling through the internet, I came across this ...

Another deadly virus is threatening the world, bringing back memories of the coronavirus and how ill-prepared the health systems of many countries, including the Philippines, were in dealing with it ...

No one who cares about the state of education in our country can ignore the more than 600-page final report recently released by the Second Congressional Commission on Education (Edcom 2). Drawing ...

The story is told about a proud lion who visited a tiny mouse. “Hey, mouse, I’m getting married. What’s the best advice you ...

This article contains references to suicide and self-harm. In November 2025, I admitted myself to a psychiatric ward in Cebu.

For decades, the high seas were governed by a comfortable illusion: that “freedom of the seas” was a neutral principle rather than a license for whoever had the ships, the satellites, and the ...

Billiards is one of my two lifetime sports; the other is poker, on which I may (or may not) do a column sometime. Today’s piece is on billiards, for two reasons, one being the recent Legends Cup ...