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…
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Daily Tribune editorials — the newspaper's official position on current issues.
New national treasure
Eala is not just writing yet another triumphant chapter in Philippine sports history; she is giving this exhausted populace a reason to…
Don’t shoot messengers
The suitcase story needs to be investigated, not demolished, amid a wave of coordinated attacks by allies of those who have been implicated.
Seeking trespasser’s okay to enter our own house
It makes no sense for the Philippines to negotiate with China over terms that would allow the Philippines to enter its own waters.
Exorbitant secrecy
In a single decade, the confidential and intelligence funds of one office grew more than thirteenfold, without any corresponding national…
Pulong is not a traitor
You see, tension is bad. So here’s the solution: China sails in, we sail out. Look at that. No confrontation. Peace.
Smoke, mirrors commission
The investigator, who got too close to the flame — like the moth in Jose Rizal’s story that burned its wings and fell — was relegated to…
Indonesia turns Phl Hague win to gas
Indonesia never laughed at us. Didn’t have to. Their action was the slap: ‘You won. But what did you build on top of it?’
Abject surrender
The deal, reached in 2024, was what the DFA called a ‘provisional understanding.’ It rested on three conditions.
VP’s Trust Deficit
If P612.5 million allocated for national security cannot be satisfactorily accounted for through even the most basic standards of…
House of iIll repute
This is the Senate working exactly as designed, which is to say, like garbage.+
What we choose to remember
It was a “Sana” rather than a SoNA, someone quipped, as Filipinos from different sectors of society assessed President Ferdinand Marcos…
Inconvenient truth
The involvement of former occupants of the Palace’s own inner circle, the Executive Secretary’s Office and the Cabinet agency that controls…
Jail corrupt sportsmen
For the past several years, the mystery surrounding the Philippine Southeast Asian Games Organizing Committee Foundation Inc. remained…
Immortal pork
One of the more notable omissions in President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s recent State of the Nation Address was a renewed warning against…
Victory undone
The deal with China is all wrong and risks walking back the country’s unassailable position in the West Philippine Sea.
Populist promise, unfunded mandate
Filipinos have every right to be angry that they’re being billed for electricity siphoned off by illegal connections their utility failed…
Mary Grace, show yourself
Bongbong doesn’t ring fake to you; it sounds impossible. Yet this country elected Bongbong. Twice the bong.