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The public is asked to believe that the Senate erupted in a leadership crisis this week for institutional reasons.
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The public is asked to believe that the Senate erupted in a leadership crisis this week for institutional reasons.

If the founders wanted harmony, they would have put up a choir. They built a legislature instead designed to survive disagreement.

Yet the underlying reason for the friction in the chamber runs deep, as it involves exposing anomalies in flood mitigation projects…

The international perception of Philippine legislators has, for years, oscillated between bemused skepticism and quiet concern.

Allowing the Executive to implement an ICC warrant without domestic authority, a local surrender law, or a treaty obligation in force…

Together, the US and China account for roughly 40 percent of global GDP and nearly a quarter of global merchandise trade.

Every heavy downpour that threatens to submerge the streets rekindles public rage over the substandard projects that President Ferdinand…

The logic is simple and seductive: For us to win, they must lose. It is the play that drives partisan warfare.

The original construction cost was pegged at P8.9 billion, with completion expected by 2021, but it remains unfinished, and the cost has…

The Palaro should serve as an entry point for a much grander, comprehensive national program aimed at developing future members of the…

The Senate is ‘perniciously polarized,’ according to a political analyst, and the divide is structural, running through the chamber’s very…

The Senate will rise above itself only when the senators face electoral consequences for this kind of institutional degradation.

The sinister mechanism works under a two-part structure where the bicam moves programmed or priority appropriations to the UA.

Under the doctrine of qualified political agency, Cabinet secretaries act as the President and are subordinate to him, not independent from…

Everybody wants Bong Go to fit some grand political archetype: mastermind, shadow operator, dark consigliere. Until Duterte got arrested.…

The Marcos shadow still haunts the nation, with some questioning whether his only son, who is now President, is attempting to revive…

Minority says physical presence matters, all while The Hague, somewhere near Uranus, can explain a warrant online, hack our national…

The dissent raised a compelling argument that the unchecked enforcement of an ICC warrant, without waiting for the Supreme Court…

The public is asked to believe that the Senate erupted in a leadership crisis this week for institutional reasons.

If the founders wanted harmony, they would have put up a choir. They built a legislature instead designed to survive disagreement.

Yet the underlying reason for the friction in the chamber runs deep, as it involves exposing anomalies in flood mitigation projects…

The international perception of Philippine legislators has, for years, oscillated between bemused skepticism and quiet concern.

Allowing the Executive to implement an ICC warrant without domestic authority, a local surrender law, or a treaty obligation in force…

Together, the US and China account for roughly 40 percent of global GDP and nearly a quarter of global merchandise trade.

Every heavy downpour that threatens to submerge the streets rekindles public rage over the substandard projects that President Ferdinand…

The logic is simple and seductive: For us to win, they must lose. It is the play that drives partisan warfare.

The original construction cost was pegged at P8.9 billion, with completion expected by 2021, but it remains unfinished, and the cost has…

The Palaro should serve as an entry point for a much grander, comprehensive national program aimed at developing future members of the…

The Senate is ‘perniciously polarized,’ according to a political analyst, and the divide is structural, running through the chamber’s very…

The Senate will rise above itself only when the senators face electoral consequences for this kind of institutional degradation.

The sinister mechanism works under a two-part structure where the bicam moves programmed or priority appropriations to the UA.

Under the doctrine of qualified political agency, Cabinet secretaries act as the President and are subordinate to him, not independent from…

Everybody wants Bong Go to fit some grand political archetype: mastermind, shadow operator, dark consigliere. Until Duterte got arrested.…

The Marcos shadow still haunts the nation, with some questioning whether his only son, who is now President, is attempting to revive…

Minority says physical presence matters, all while The Hague, somewhere near Uranus, can explain a warrant online, hack our national…

The dissent raised a compelling argument that the unchecked enforcement of an ICC warrant, without waiting for the Supreme Court…