#CourageON: A river in Cebu remembers

The river has wisdom. If you walk slow enough to listen, then you learn that water always finds a way.

OPINION: Gloria Steinem and feminism in the Philippines

Gloria Steinem left an indelible mark on the Philippine women"s movement especially in issues she bitterly fought hard to win such as reproductive health rights and the mainstreaming of feminist literature.

PROSECUTION'S PROGRESS

Cesar Virata, 95

The Philippines’ foremost technocrat and first prime minister, Cesar Emilio Aguinaldo Virata, died on Oct. 2, 2026. Born Dec. 12, 1930, he was 95.

Now is not a good time, Russian plague

AS if we did not have enough to cause us individual and collective stress and worry, news has emerged in the past several days about an apparent outbreak of a dangerous infection in Russia’s vast Siberia region. The…

Postcards from Berlin

Oct. 3, 1990, was a day that shaped Germany’s and Europe’s future like few others. On that day, a country that had been divided for four decades was reunified.

Cayetano’s words, Cayetano’s shame

ALAN Peter Cayetano has a formidable adversary in the impeachment trial of Sara Duterte: Alan Peter Cayetano. The senator who once made accountability sound beautifully simple now makes it sound impossibly complicated…

Can we really close down ‘diploma mills?’

My column last week, titled “Time to close diploma mills,” appears to have struck a nerve across the higher education sector.

Is governance a brake or a catalyst?

A WELL-DESIGNED regulatory framework is often described as a “brake” on innovation. Too many rules slow companies down, too much compliance burdens entrepreneurs, and too much uncertainty chases away investment. But…

Learning from the masters

When Manny Torrejon started working right after college, he took a job as a management trainee, having finished a course in Managing Financing Institutions in his college years.

Inconvenience fee

EVERY day, you are being robbed — and you probably don’t even notice it. When you buy load for your mobile phone, and you choose the GoEXTRA179 package to get data, calls and text for 15 days using the e-wallet GCash…

In-auction

The Department of Energy (DOE) is about to run something quite novel. They call it the country’s first “mid-merit capacity auction.”

Dunning-Kruger effect in PH government

THE Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited knowledge or skill in a particular area tend to overestimate their own competence, while people with greater expertise are often more aware of…

EDITORIAL — Protection, not exclusion

With classes in schools across the country being disrupted by threats of violent attacks, various agencies are doing what they can to address the problem.

Arms race for world peace?

WILL war break out soon? Judging from war and peace-related news headlines, it would seem that countries are preparing for a high-tech war. Figure out the following: “China increases construction rate of amphibious…

The banana chip witch hunt: China, CALE88 and the weaponization of national security against Sara Duterte

APPARENTLY, in the Philippines today, even banana chips can become a national security threat — provided the buyer is Chinese and the company selling them has a connection to the Duterte family. Welcome to the latest…

US-China war now

IF Defense Secretary Gilberto “Gibo” Teodoro Jr.’s current moves were to be the gauge, then Taiwan will have to erupt in its destined flash point sooner than we think. First, in May, no less than Teodoro led the raid on…

The ecological debt: What humanity owes the future

Last of seven parts THE philosophy of time, if there were such a thing (St. Augustine of Hippo said time exists only in the mind), may be the grand avenue for understanding ecological debt. Ordinary debt connects past…