For a while, it seemed as if the memory of the 1986 Edsa People Power Revolution—the most monumental event in contemporary Philippine history—was itself on its way to that proverbial dustbin of ...

Back in 2017, during the late, great Inquirer Briefing infographic experiment, we reviewed revolutions in our era by adopting the point of view of Timothy Garton Ash, who described two kinds of ...

I often have to remind myself that my present freshman students were born after 2000. Martial law and the 1986 People Power Revolution are as ancient as dinosaurs and cavemen. Nothing brought this ...

I am in college now, yet part of me still lives in the quiet glow of birthday candles. Every year, I closed my eyes and ...

A week ago, my colleague at Ateneo, Dr. Leland dela Cruz, asked on Facebook why it had taken the Israelites 40 years to make ...

Wake up, Philippines. There is a structural shift already reshaping telecommunications work across the region and Australia’s Telstra is an eye-popping example. From 2024 to 2026 Telstra has cut ...

There is more than one way to assert sovereignty beyond diplomatic protests and verbal barbs. For the government, the most effective one yet may not require words at all but something literally ...

Between December 2024 and December 2025 alone, we lost over half a million small firms, with our labor force data reporting 559,000 fewer workers in the “employer in own family farm/business” ...

Each year in the Philippines, the cool months give us a brief illusion of calm. Skies clear, rivers recede, and disaster ...

Ominous dark skies loom over the political landscape in the fledgling Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) here in this city, the seat of the very first autonomous ...

The Supreme Court of the United States (Scotus), voting 6-3, declared unconstitutional and smashed US President Donald Trump’s tariff terrorism that upset the global order and the rule of law.