Earlier, I wrote about the first-ever parliamentary elections in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) that were expected to happen on Oct. 13, 2025, as ...

With the world economy in a state of unprecedented turmoil and fuel prices rising quickly, local  diesel is now dangerously close to P170/liter while gasoline is nearly  P120/liter and both are ...

Holy Wednesday drew half of Marikina to the supermarket. The parking lot was full, cars circling like restless birds, until ...

Back to the Stone Age!” That’s how United States President Donald Trump and his impresarios framed their next phase of escalation, threatening Iran with civilizational annihilation. In response, ...

While the biggest slice of the country’s annual budget continues to be allocated to education, as mandated in the ...

June is no longer the “marrying-est” month for weddings in the Philippines (or in the United States, from whom we borrowed the notion that June should be the month of weddings). It seems that in ...

How did diesel get so dear that it now costs much more than gasoline, after decades of being cheaper? For both economic ...

Mahar Mangahas quantifies an important point: focusing on unhappiness rather than happiness offers a clearer picture of the situation among ...

Over the years, I have come to realize that the great truths of Scripture are not cloistered in the pages of the Bible or the walls of the Church. They are lived in our daily struggles. Easter ...

In the last couple of days, there have been many opportunities to find time for silence and needed self-introspection. As I ...

To the cynical observer, the act of naming a tiny sandbar or a submerged atoll might seem like a futile exercise against the ...

The last memory I had of last Holy Week was being drunk alone in the surprisingly empty streets of Blumentritt. Keeping me ...