YOU DO NOT NEED a lawyer to grasp the command. Article II, Section 26 of the 1987 Constitution orders the State to guarantee equal access to opportunities for public service and to prohibit political dynasties as defined by law. The framers wrote it as a duty, not a suggestion. Congress received the assignment on day one. Congress refused to finish it.

The 20th Congress of the Philippines currently has within its sights the potential structural change to turn the political tide. The current debates on the...

The Philippines has launched the 5th round of its Green Energy Auction Program, or GEA-5, and this one is different. It is the country’s...

EDSA has always been more than just a road. It is Metro Manila’s main artery, carrying millions of people daily as we head to...

“We’re going to kill them. They’re going to be, like — dead.” US President Donald Trump said to a group of reporters at a...

Earlier this year, a digestive disorder that many Filipinos had rarely heard of suddenly captured national attention when it was widely reported by news...

ONE LESS EXPECTED development since the US and Israel unleashed an air war on Iran last weekend has been the distribution of the Iranian response.

The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2026 reads less like a warning and more like a diagnosis. Its central finding is stark. The...

It may take a long time to process and to reach the point of awakening. Then we discover what is important in life —...

AS THE US and Israel began their joint assault on Iran, reports emerged from Iran that a strike hit the Shajarah Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in the southern city of Minab.

I suspect many Filipinos who struggle to make ends meet each day regard China’s coercion in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) this way: it’s...

In the dictionary of government service, there is perhaps no word more destructive to progress than “indefinitely.” When a system stalls or when a...