Last Jan. 5, President Marcos signed into law the P6.79 trillion national budget for 2026. This amount is equivalent to 22 percent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) and represents a ...

For many Filipinos, Christmas is a sound—music blasting from speakers, firecrackers echoing through the streets as December ...

Neophyte politician Leandro Leviste had been in the headlines since he was elected as representative of the first district of ...

Learning is built on reading. However, for most Filipino learners, this foundation is already shaky even before they enter high school. In Grade 7 classrooms, learners can pronounce words but cannot ...

The simultaneous specter of impeachment complaints looming on both the President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. and the Vice President Sara Duterte is a present and dangerous reality. A ...

OXFORD—More than a year before United States President Donald Trump’s reassumption of power, I raised the possibility of ”de-risking” from a more unpredictable America during a high-level ...

Countless people who knew or worked with Aniceto “Chito” Sobrepeña are still in shock and grief over his sudden passing last ...

For years, the disappearance of dozens of “sabungeros” or cockfighting enthusiasts hovered between rumor and urban legend.

Lately, I’ve been wondering how ready the Philippines is to handle the changing global order. During the Cold War that began after the Second World War and stretched into the early 21st century, ...