[DECODED] AI is changing our lives more than we realize

AI is reshaping our lives more than we realize, from how much time we spend online, to how safe our children are, to how we vote

A FOOL FOR POOL

Budget guard rails violated

The Supreme Court (SC) decision that declared unconstitutional specific provisions of the budget laws of 2024, 2025 and 2026 could undeniably cause delay in the approval of the 2027 General Appropriation Bill (GAB).

A surefire way to unite the nation in fury

ON a weekend that is traditionally reserved for Filipinos to remember and honor their dearly departed, shocking news emerged about a grisly discovery in a vacant lot in San Jose del Monte, Bulacan: nearly 30 dead pets…

Mahiya naman kayo, BBM, Sandro jeered

People cheered when President Bongbong Marcos in his 2025 State of the Nation rebuked lawmakers, “Mahiya naman kayo!” He claimed then to be fed up with their pork barrels in the form of fake and faulty flood control…

Business groups: ‘Mr. Teodoro, stop your hostility toward China’

THAT, in so many words, is the strongly worded message of business organizations to Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro who has defied President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s policy that China is a friend of the country and has…

Marcos failed Jonvic and us all

I have always liked Jonvic Remulla. He is intelligent, belongs to the thinking class and, I would like to believe, is independently wealthy enough to resist the temptations of corruption. He understands the flaws of the…

Duterte-era horrors still haunt the nation

NOT all medical doctors would want to be in the scrub suit of Dr. Raquel Fortun, the country’s leading forensic pathologist. Examining the bodies of the victims of Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody war on drugs after the…

Bawas yabang, please

Just because so many people do it does not make it right.

The Philippines in a world without a referee

Last in a four-part series IN the preceding three installments, we have watched the world’s architecture change. America remains immensely powerful but cannot police every crisis. Sea lanes are contested. Regional…

Airlines’ perfect storm

The Marcos administration has consistently received the lowest approval ratings in managing inflation.

Preparing for tsunamis

THERE is a Japanese proverb that goes, “The next disaster strikes when the previous one has been forgotten.” On March 11, 2011, Japan experienced a 9.0-magnitude earthquake, also known as the Great East Japan…

EDITORIAL — Threats evolve; impunity endures

Apart from remembering the dearly departed on All Souls’ Day, the nation also joined the global community on Nov. 2 in marking the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists.

ADMM-Plus is a wake-up call for Manila and Beijing

CHINA’s decision to downgrade its representation at the recent Asean Defense Ministers’ Meeting-Plus (ADMM-Plus) hosted by the Philippines should not be viewed merely as a diplomatic slight. More importantly, it should…

Democrats poised to flip Congress: What losing the House and Senate would mean for Trump

THE Nov. 3 US midterms are about more than which party controls Congress. A shift in either chamber would reshape President Donald Trump’s final two years, intensify the Republican Party’s internal debate over its…

If AI thinks for us, democracy will suffer

CHICAGO, Illinois — Sometime in the 18th century, the Enlightenment settled a contentious, centuries-old question: Where does knowledge come from? For millennia, many people had pointed to God. But the early modern…