The decision to set a maximum suggested retail price (MSRP) of P58 per kilo for imported rice is not just alarmingly high—it is an affront to the intelligence of every Filipino consumer. This ...

Once, during class, a student addressed me as “Professor.” I told him, “You don’t need to address me (as) that.” He asked, “Why, sir? You are a teacher in the university.” I answered: ...

The 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump, took his oath of office in Washington on Jan. 20. A peaceful transfer ...

We’ve all heard the lament that young Filipinos are no longer interested in agriculture and farming as an occupation or ...

Between consent and force stands corruption, which is characteristic of situations when it is hard to exercise the hegemonic ...

Has corruption become so embedded in Philippine political culture that it has become like hardened phlegm, difficult to ...

I’m just hoping the pain will be over soon.” This was a friend’s response when I asked her how she felt about her upcoming ...

Feeling that they were being “shortchanged,” mayors across the country asked the Department of Finance (DOF) for a full ...

In two past columns, I chastised the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and its chair, George Erwin Garcia (GEG), whom I have ...

In my third year of college, our public health class was taken on a brief tour of an overcrowded government hospital. One ...

They say love comes when you least expect it, when you stop searching for it so desperately, and it arrives naturally. I ...