Real trickle down effect
Every peso diverted to a fake flood control project is a peso that didn’t pay for a guidance counselor, a school clinic, or to train campus…
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Daily Tribune editorials — the newspaper's official position on current issues.
Credibility on trial
He is, as a broad coalition of civil society groups put it, ‘perhaps the most imperfect and one of the most dangerous’ choices. That is not…
Robbed twice over
The SC’s language on the ruling was blunt: the sweep undermined the very nature of PhilHealth funds as pooled resources for social health…
Results not optics
Filipinos are not demanding more elaborate messaging from the government; they are asking for tangible evidence that their daily lives are…
No exceptions nor excuses
‘The rule of law loses its meaning when exemptions are made for the powerful, the influential, and the politically connected.’
Quo vadis, indeed
History education is critical in developing critical thinking and avoiding the repetition of past mistakes.
Stories that numbers tell
The reason was obscene in its very nature; the Marcos government found a way to profit from a war half a world away.
Grieving fathers
For Rene ‘Boboy’ Baterbonia Sr. and Elias Adili, there’s nothing to celebrate. This is a day of sorrow as they will be spending it without…
Time’s up
Among the issues the SC is asked to resolve is the nature of Unprogrammed Appropriations and how far Congress and the executive can stretch…
Maintain stance, temper the tone
The defense chief must continue to assert our legal rights. But public language should avoid gratuitous provocations.
Hosting an ICC fugitive
Russia signed the Rome Statute in 2000 but never ratified it to become a member of the ICC, and in 2016 it finally withdrew its signature.
14 is not 16
A diminished Senate is not a stronger Senate. A broken scale is not more accurate because it has fewer parts.
Pork over progress
Without congressional authorization on the funds, even fully disbursed foreign loans sit inert.e
Lawfare as arithmetic of power
This is the weaponization of the leadership fight obscured. It is not about who runs the Senate, but who gets to remain a senator dressed…
Budget crooks must stand trial
After the SC struck down the Priority Development Assistance Fund in 2013, the crooks in government became innovative. They devised ways…
Peace imminent; pain to linger
Even with a US-Iran peace deal, returning to pre-war fuel price levels will take another six to12 months.
Transactional politics uncorked
The cases apparently were dangled as leverage, dismissals offered in exchange for bloc membership, following the template allegedly applied…
Beyond thirteen
What happens if the Senate suddenly finds itself short of the very senators needed to either conduct the trial or to convict?