Top-secret bananas
Bongbong receives intelligence. That does not make his office an intelligence agency. Otherwise, every Cabinet secretary would qualify for…
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Daily Tribune editorials — the newspaper's official position on current issues.
Absolute letdown
The past year saw the most spectacular display of how corruption can bring down a nation where self-gratification in the political sphere…
New hope or distraction?
For decades, the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games has been a unifying force — a multi-sport tournament held every two years with the goal of…
Continuing plunder
To implement the law, Ralph Recto, who was then finance secretary, issued a directive to compel GOCCs to transfer ‘excess,’ ‘idle,’ or…
Exit age of certainty; enter age of raw power
The world must now prepare for an America that acts not as a leader of a system, but as a unilateral actor in a zero-sum game.
Heed bishop’s call: Step down
In our country today, some refuse to step down even after being exposed. They refuse to step down, even when it is already a burden to the…
What we learn from others
Who knew that for three decades now, Venezuelans had been suffering under the leadership of their now deposed president Nicolas Maduro.
Don‘t trust Ralph
Carpio said Recto wrote to PhilHealth, requesting the transfer of the funds to the National Treasury, as the funds would be used for…
Break the Duterte run
If Sara survives 2026 battered but defiant, she could emerge with exactly the kind of ‘I fought the system’ credentials that supercharge a…
All for self-preservation
Under Article VI, Section 27 of the Constitution, the President’s item veto of appropriations permanently deletes the vetoed items from the…
Dangerous precedent
‘If the kidnapping of a head of state and the bombing are tolerated, the message sent to the world is a devastating one, that is, mainly…
Quit hijacking the budget
Budget watchdogs said a complaint before the Supreme Court is being prepared to challenge the constitutionality of the new budget.
As American as apple pie and airstrikes
You can condemn Trump’s Venezuela move. You can question its wisdom. But you cannot call it un-American.
Debt junkie rules Palace
Debt service receives the ‘first cut’ of the budget, as it is funded first from available revenues, before allocations to agencies for…
Rocking integrity for progress
Announced in December 2025 and formalized by definitive agreements signed shortly thereafter, the deal saw GIP acquire a 40 percent stake…
China’s problematic narrative at WPS
If you have to ask why someone wasn’t in his backyard, perhaps you shouldn’t be there either. We are exactly where our waters are.
New year,new challenge
The pressure to deliver no longer falls on the athletes — it’s now on the sports officials.
Transactional budget
The emerging reality is that this budget will be devoid of the promised reforms after the massive corruption that perverted the past three…