Act before crisis bites
Economic managers must not delay the measures to provide aid to Filipino households and public transport drivers and operators who will be…
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EDITORIAL
Daily Tribune editorials — the newspaper's official position on current issues.
Bracing for global energy shock
Faced with a global storm triggered by forces beyond our control, what other choice, pray tell, do we have?
The press conference that wasn‘t
The organizers —whether former congressman Mike Defensor or whoever else choreographed the event — may have believed they were protecting…
Doomsday on evil
Kursch highlighted the ‘very close and unique partnership’ between President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which has been…
China doesn’t want war
Something explodes in the West Philippine Sea — that’s the model. Missiles from ships you can’t see. Drones you can’t swat. Subs you can’t…
Stop crucifying power users
Electric cooperatives, often linked to dominant political figures, should give way to more efficient private operators with the resources…
Teeteringon edge, again
The lesson, for the Philippines, is both urgent and familiar: the country’s economic fate is tied, inescapably, to the stability of a world…
Calibrated deception
Remulla admitted meeting with ICC investigators, corroborating the Marines’ claim that he hosted clandestine meetings at his private…
A war too convenient for Trump
Washington has used that cover story many times before, including in 2003, when President George W. Bush used the same logic to invade…
Inday Sara conundrum
The NUP issued a statement signaling that it may withhold support for the impeachment of VP Duterte unless compelling new evidence is…
INC issues ultimatum
INC spokesperson Bro. Edwil D. Zabala read a pointed statement demanding results from the Marcos administration on the probes into the…
Iranian blackmail
The Philippines does not need to be bombed to feel the effects of war. It only has to see oil prices spike.
Win-win solution
Instead of prioritizing health, transportation, water, housing and safety, the city administration is ready to spend billions on a project…
Pork, patronage localized
Under the guise of the automatic National Tax Allotment, the lump sums are similar in character to the Priority Development Assistance Fund.
Pondering Sara Duterte’s presidency
It would be a presidency born not of the people’s highest hopes, but of their resigned acceptance of the familiar — an obtuse diva with a…
Trillanes’ crap fed to ICC
The prosecution delved into a conspiracy, which it termed the Common Plan, which was supposedly the systematic state-sanctioned killing of…
Riddle me this
Yet before anyone could even begin to build solid cases against the politicians that have been linked to the flood control projects…
Grand design
While collusion with the ICC would be hard to prove, the opportunistic move to hand over the former president was shown by the reversal…