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

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

IMG_0510. In Metro Manila, movement is governed by delay. Last week, amid the December rush, I crossed the city by motorcycle ...

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: ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...