ICC overreach equals injustice
The ICC exists as a court of last resort, not a first resort, and the Philippines maintains a functioning three-tiered judiciary fully…
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Daily Tribune editorials — the newspaper's official position on current issues.
Islamabad talks, futile?
Ceasefires typically survive when both parties see a credible path to a political solution. In this case, the rhetoric is moving in the…
Blood stains white barongs
He died because the line was too long, the relief too slow and the policy too cruel.
Countdown: A wider war
Washington merely shifted from strikes to economic coercion, betting that financial strain might succeed where force had not. It wasn’t…
Ayuda to die for
The contemptible instances are not isolated tragedies but the predictable result of a policy that treats working Filipinos as supplicants…
Shocks converge
It does not take much to disrupt this balance. A supply shock far from Manila tightens fuel access, and prices begin to rise.
No Czech mate
Malacañang cannot credibly lecture citizens about fake news while its own Facebook feed circulates an unverified claim from the very top.
Magnificent Seven
For Filipino athletes, the lessons etched in the careers of these legends are more relevant now than ever.
Crisis grows; will cowers
Suspending the excise tax on all oil products would deliver direct monthly savings of P37 to P70 for most people.
Bridge too far — for RSA
A businessman who cannot secure an airport’s ceilings or traffic barriers should not be trusted to build a bridge over a sensitive marine…
Clockwork politics at play
Co had been on the run since warrants were issued in November 2025. Suddenly, his arrest is announced just as Lacson is having a hard time…
Standing amid chaos
Compassion sometimes reaches its limit when one’s own backyard is littered with issues gathering dust or rotting in the sun.
Corruption derails concessions
The practice that intensified over the past three years under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. was the manipulation of the budget to favor…
Slow leak feeling
He looks like he’d rather be somewhere else: tattooed, chewing gum, faintly inconvenienced by the entire idea of leadership.
Telenovela sa Kamara flops
The credibility of Madriaga, another character in the array of pawns in the stable of coup plotter Antonio Trillanes IV, vaporized during…
Iran blockade imperils Phl economy
The ceasefire’s collapse is not merely possible, it is probable — unless one side blinks first.
Impeach mania fuels rage
It becomes constitutionally corrosive when the House lingers for the full 60 session days, three hearings a week, turning inquiry into a…
Marcosian framing
While the Marcos PR machinery may have succeeded in aligning many, it has not aligned all.