Forging a CoC amid contested waters
The 2026 deadline for finalizing binding rules in the South China Sea has acquired critical urgency for Manila. The Code of Conduct…
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EDITORIAL
Daily Tribune editorials — the newspaper's official position on current issues.
Boying hits stone wall
Villanueva got off the hook after the Senate refused to enforce the order of Carpio-Morales, saying that the chamber had its own system of…
Department of Sports and Tourism?
Merging the PSC with a larger department also addresses a practical issue: scale and resources.
Deadliest addiction
The public has lately been treated to a spectacle of the Marcos Jr. administration maintaining a borrowing spree to finance its pork barrel…
‘Barzagulan’
Soon enough, the cat’s caterwauling became an irritant, plagued as it was with falsehoods and unfounded accusations.
Janus-faced ES
The Constitution is explicit about the GAA being based on a budget of expenditures and financing sources.
Motion to run
“[Due to circumstances that are not political but extremely persuasive,] I must walk out right now.” Boom. Diarrhea with manners.
Who judges the judges?
Initiation is when it is referred to the Committee on Justice, but at the same time, the Tribunal’s resolution said it was dismissed for…
Where will AI bring the world?
Used thoughtfully, AI can accelerate breakthroughs: Misused, it can deepen inequality and strain democratic norms.
Bigger storm
Bongbong has been faltering in his response to the political volatility he faces, which is not even half as intense as the insurrection…
Trials and timelines
And who performs in this spectacle? House members act as prosecutors, senators as judges. Many of them are eyeing higher office.
Chilling effect
She cited instances in which payments for most infrastructure contracts, not just flood control, were frozen.
Anyone but Bongbong
A country that keeps asking if it’s OK to sound like a country eventually forgets how.
Big fish spits on justice
The filing of delinquency charges on tax payments is a potent weapon to jail crooks and prevent them from exploiting the slow grind of…
Time to clean the blade
It is not an excuse to physically assault a 64-year-old senior citizen who already underwent a quadruple bypass operation and whose life…
High court vs low sense
Contrary to critics’ claims, the ruling that finally upheld the rejection of the steps taken to put Vice President Sara Duterte on trial…
What’s in your FB?
If the policy is implemented, the US could miss out on as many as 4.7 million international visitors, or a 23 percent drop in visitors from…
House of Misrepresentatives
VP Duterte filed a challenge with the SC, arguing violations of due process and the constitutional one-year bar on multiple impeachments…