Crimes against humanity: Inflection point
By Marian Pastor Roces
The inflection is on the word humanity. These are not crimes against humans alone.
There are crimes and there are crimes. For most part, these...
Stemming the obesity epidemic among Filipino children
By Teodoro B. Padilla
More than one billion people worldwide are living with obesity today. In 2025 alone, an estimated 543 million children and adolescents were overweight or...
EDSA@40: Governance, not memory
By Diwa C. Guinigundo
Our economic managers and trade officials may well succeed in attracting sizeable foreign investments as we chair ASEAN in 2026. But without structural reform...
The unglamorous work that makes AI possible
THERE IS a category of organizational investment that rarely generates enthusiasm in the boardroom. It does not carry the promise of artificial intelligence (AI), the urgency of cybersecurity, or the narrative appeal of digital transformation.
Europe鈥檚 capital markets are making a great leap forward聽
THERE鈥橲 BEEN a lot of bad weather this year, both actual and economic. Tariffs are coming and going, random Substack posts are making software-company investors panic, and the US is rattling a saber in the Gulf. But none of this is spoiling the springtime vibe in Europe鈥檚 credit markets.
A call for judicial restraint
By Jemy Gatdula
As always, we start with the Constitution and its principles: explicit in Article XV.1 and .2 is that the Filipino family is the foundation...
Entrepreneurship and Feng Shui: The playbook for the Year of the Fire Horse
By RJ Ledesma
鈥淢illionaires don鈥檛 use astrology, billionaires do.鈥 This quote, which is often attributed to the legendary banker J.P. Morgan, is the perfect introduction to the...
Tax gamble
By Marvin Tort
For a government that鈥檚 cash-strapped, I cannot understand why Congress is abolishing the travel tax as well as reducing the tax on nicotine juice...
Anthropic should stand its ground against the Pentagon
THEY SAY your values aren鈥檛 truly values until they cost you something. For Anthropic co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei, that cost might come as soon as Tuesday when he visits the Pentagon for what鈥檚 been billed as a showdown meeting with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
Grapes and gripes
By Tony Samson
IN AESOP鈥橲 FABLE, The Fox and the Grapes, the main character is trying to pluck fruits off the vine which prove to be beyond...
Population decline: Greatest threat to humanity
By Bernardo M. Villegas
The Philippines is well positioned to avoid the worst consequences of population decline and ageing.聽 It is still a young country today with a median age of 26.
The cognitive war in national security
By Victor Andres C. Manhit
Wars are typically fought by breaching national borders and territorial boundaries. Advances in technology, however, have created new battlefields. Today, conflict can unfold without...
















