[Rappler Investigates] Who’s taking care of our dead?

How could the living get through their own painful experience of saying their final goodbyes if embalmers weren’t there to help preserve the memory of their loved ones?

[Edgewise] US midterms: After the blue tsunami, what is to be done?

End the Iran war, abolish Trump’s tariffs, and stop ICE abuses — among others

ROCKED THEN ROLLED

First Lady Liza Marcos at Rotary Club of Manila

The Rotary Club of Manila is making history today.

US rejects the Trump formula

THE United States midterm elections this year were probably the most keenly watched off-cycle elections in recent history, as they were widely regarded as a referendum on the leadership of US President Donald Trump and…

Our planet’s biodiversity needs protection: Germany and the Philippines are close partners

At the end of October, the Convention on Biological Diversity brought together delegates from all over the world in Yerevan, Armenia, for the 17th Conference of the Parties to discuss and make decisions on important…

When surveys count loyalty as judgment

SURVEYS are revealing more and more of our flaws. Do these findings make us more self-aware and encourage us to do better, or simply normalize and reinforce the flaws they expose? A poll records what people think. It…

Buying Filipino creates jobs

Last weekend, I wrote a column that the Philippine economy is facing a very serious threat of stagflation.

New and wonderful Filipino books from Penguin SEA

IT’s a great year for Filipino writers who have been published by Penguin Random House, the biggest trade publisher in the world. Their headquarters in Southeast Asia has just released (or announced) new and forthcoming…

The Semirara coal war

Sleepless nights, the kind that leave you tossing and turning in bed long after the world has fallen into a deep slumber and well past the witching hour, have become familiar to Energy Secretary Sharon Garin.

Another dead-end solution to the plastics crisis

FOR what I think are probably obvious reasons, I am hugely distracted as I am writing this (early Wednesday morning, Nov. 4) by the results of the United States midterm elections, which is just as well, as I am waiting…

Battleground

The budget is the main battleground.

Find hope during AI disruptions

ARTIFICIAL intelligence (AI) is controversial. Many see the promises and perils of AI. Will AI save the world or destroy the world? Like the industrial progress from the introduction of the printing press, electricity…

EDITORIAL— Picking the next CJ

Among the most consequential appointments a president can make is that of the chief justice. President Marcos has this chance as Alexander Gesmundo reaches the mandatory retirement age of 70 and bows out as Chief…

Alab ng Puso and the right kind of Gen Z protest

ON Nov. 2, I stood before hundreds of young Filipinos at the FilOil Center in San Juan to lead a prayer of repentance for corruption and the abuse of entrusted authority. I was trembling. Twenty-five years ago, I was…

Punishable jokes

A NATION reveals its heart in the room it makes for people who move, speak, worship or dream differently. We may hang flags from every window, yet leave a fellow Filipino standing outside the door. Sometimes, the lock…

Europe’s bright future

PARIS — I was born in Germany, studied in Switzerland and the United Kingdom, and served as a reserve officer in the French Navy. Today, I am a French citizen leading a French company that operates in more than 50…

Trump has defied political consequences for years. The midterms changed that

WASHINGTON, D.C. — For more than a decade, Donald Trump defied the rules of politics that applied to everyone else. No more. Tuesday’s elections were a categorical repudiation of a Republican president who has spent the…