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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Clamor for young leaders with integrity has resonated in our country over the past decades and again during these very ...

The late journalist Juan Mercado used to quote an old Malay proverb to describe the ultimate futility of the Marcos ...

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 ...

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 ...