Politics over vainglory
If anything good came out of this exhausting episode of ‘Senateflix,’ it was that Filipino sports fans have finally seen Alan Peter…
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Senate’s Catch-22
If the dispute reaches the Supreme Court, the living Constitution argument would likely apply.
Weight of corruption: Why Filipinos remain poor
Notes the World Bank: workers without secondary education are unable to find formal jobs; this reality persists because corruption diverts…
Pack that mafia
What the public saw instead was a cascade of maneuvers that, in essence, was meant to poison the well.
The Chiz that got away
Some people have a bucket list. Trillanes has a docket list. Some are more interested in who gave Sonny batteries. That’s the real mystery.
Garbage swims home
The public is asked to believe that the Senate erupted in a leadership crisis this week for institutional reasons.
Congressmeow is the point
If the founders wanted harmony, they would have put up a choir. They built a legislature instead designed to survive disagreement.
Public wants flood probe, not coverup
Yet the underlying reason for the friction in the chamber runs deep, as it involves exposing anomalies in flood mitigation projects…
Empty chamber, telling signal
The international perception of Philippine legislators has, for years, oscillated between bemused skepticism and quiet concern.
The Hague must wait
Allowing the Executive to implement an ICC warrant without domestic authority, a local surrender law, or a treaty obligation in force…
Power’s new arithmetic
Together, the US and China account for roughly 40 percent of global GDP and nearly a quarter of global merchandise trade.
Reckoning season
Every heavy downpour that threatens to submerge the streets rekindles public rage over the substandard projects that President Ferdinand…
Zero-sum superstars
The logic is simple and seductive: For us to win, they must lose. It is the play that drives partisan warfare.
Hospital better than a circus
The original construction cost was pegged at P8.9 billion, with completion expected by 2021, but it remains unfinished, and the cost has…
Grassroots program or just a sportsfest?
The Palaro should serve as an entry point for a much grander, comprehensive national program aimed at developing future members of the…
Deepening fault lines
The Senate is ‘perniciously polarized,’ according to a political analyst, and the divide is structural, running through the chamber’s very…
From statesmanship to self preservation
The Senate will rise above itself only when the senators face electoral consequences for this kind of institutional degradation.
Bicam’s dirty chess game
The sinister mechanism works under a two-part structure where the bicam moves programmed or priority appropriations to the UA.