Reckoning tide rises
Any downgrade, or even a negative outlook revision, raises sovereign borrowing costs and makes infrastructure capital more expensive to…
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Daily Tribune editorials — the newspaper's official position on current issues.
‘Halo-halo’ meltdown
Morena skin is no longer treated as a tragic backstory. Curly hair is no longer a bloodline curse.
Budget rot surfaces
Roads and bridges built with public funds crumbled; the earthquake exposed many as having been constructed without steel reinforcement.
Stagnant bureaucrats
Dizon’s unguarded utterance instantly raised the widespread public suspicion that local public works officials were often hesitant to do…
Great cleansing
The prolonged resistance by the defense contributed to the case going stale as witnesses retired or died and records aged, making evidence…
When tears are not enough
Baldwin admitted that he didn’t just fail as a leader and a coach, he also failed the two boys as a friend.
Heat from a fragile ceasefire
Between 200,000 and 340,000 OFWs could lose their jobs if the war continues, a displacement that would compound the energy crisis with a…
Barricades spell disconnection
It was thought the street-level symbol of oppression was gone for good; now it is back with a vengeance.
Are we really free?
Administration after administration promised reform. Some delivered progress. Many fell short. Corruption survived.
Textbook false flag
Marcos had pledged that 37 lawmakers, government officials and contractors would be in jail by Christmas 2025. Christmas came and went, but…
Burden of why
His mother thought she had sent him to school. School. Not to war. A disaster zone. Not the ocean.
Phantom budget, ghost projects
Counsel for the petitioners observed that ‘UAs ballooned to a very high amount compared with the years before 2024,’ revealing a…
Alarm raised on looming wall of maturities
Philippine conglomerates face roughly P1.6 trillion — about $26 billion — in debt obligations maturing between 2027 and 2029.
Divine audit
Hernandez testified that only 30 to 50 percent of each contract actually went to construction; the rest was siphoned off and stuffed into…
The curious case of Erich Sylvester Tulfo
Crow, apparently, is not a delicacy. Politicians generally spend entire careers finding ways not to eat it.
Circle tightens
Rising prices, job insecurity and anemic growth combined signal stagflationary pressures that hit poor and vulnerable households hardest.
Are we suckers for punishment?
How do we explain to other nationalities why our political system is this way, let alone to ourselves, who have long allowed it to happen?
Robbers’ royal rumble
The SALN suffers from structural defects that render it useless as an accountability tool.