America can’t do plumbing right
America’s confrontation with Iran has demonstrated something that military balance sheets tend to conceal: superpower status does not make…
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Daily Tribune editorials — the newspaper's official position on current issues.
Now it’s phantom pork
The money did not vanish. It reappeared under the Local Government Support Fund, in a line called financial assistance to local government…
Courtroom clash
Political theater had never been quite as alive as today, where senators clash without restraint and insults fly as quickly as tantrums…
Marcos silent heist partner
Marcos did not have to invent the leadership fund, but he failed to stop it, and such inaction in a system built on impunity is its own…
Victory for Phl sports
Why did a private entity take charge of the billions in public funds when a legitimate government agency was fully equipped to handle it?
Crisis self-inflicted
If the slowdown continues, economists fear the Philippines will be among the first in the region to enter the feared stagflation.
Manila’s (late) EV bet
Energy Secretary Sharon Garin’s framing — that the Philippines should build EVs, not merely ride them — is the right ambition wearing the…
Debt addiction destroys lives
More than a third of every peso collected from every Filipino taxpayer goes not to a classroom or a hospital but to a bondholder.
New EDSA: Melts when wet
So you get fantastic at living with bad roads. You hit the pothole once, you blame government. Twice, you remember it. Third pothole, you…
Quo vadis, agriculture?
Poor governance was palpable in his penultimate speech. Marcos entered office claiming agriculture as his priority and built his legitimacy…
The Philippines failed Bongbong
Because world-class flood control requires world-class citizens. Everyone disciplined. Nobody litters. Nobody throws anything anywhere.…
Grand theft season
The spending plan needed to put on a show because the flood control scandal blew the lid off a practice that had become normal: using the…
Pax Silica’s real test: Diligence
If the Philippines wants Pax Silica to be remembered as nation-building rather than another New Clark City promise that outran its due…
Same racket, different strokes
The price tag, charged to the government, is six to eight times what the material actually costs.
‘P*tang in* naman o!’
Dizon’s outburst may be the most honest assessment anyone has offered. But honesty from a Cabinet secretary isn’t a fix.
Deflection drowns nation
The rains came, as they always do. Three typhoons circled the archipelago and met the southwest monsoon head-on. Streets became rivers.…
Patriotism beyond politics
There is a difference between loving one’s country and being satisfied with its leadership. One is enduring; the other must be earned.
Tossing crumbs after a P1-T feast
The zarzuela, which is meant to lift the profile of the administration while getting back at political foes, has the overall effect of…