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 ...

Forty years ago, Filipinos stood on a highway and reset the moral boundaries of power. They did not gather along Edsa simply to remove a single man from office. They gathered to reject a system that ...

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 ...

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” ...

A decade after former President Rodrigo Duterte launched his scorched-earth drug war, the arc of history is finally bending toward justice. This week witnessed something unprecedented in ...

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

Clamor for young leaders with integrity has resonated in our country over the past decades and again during these very challenging times, as emphasized in the article ”We need more young servant ...