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What ‘vibrancy of democracy’ was Senator Rodante Marcoleta babbling about?
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What ‘vibrancy of democracy’ was Senator Rodante Marcoleta babbling about?
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BAGUIO CITY — Two Baguio residents were commended by the city government during Monday’s flag-raising ceremony at the Baguio City Hall grounds on 25 May 2026.
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As the Philippines grapples with impeachment proceedings, political dynasties at war, institutional crises, disinformation, and renewed debates on…
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Vida, also present at the Tuesday briefing but who didn’t indicate that he had immensely enjoyed the virtual shredding of Cayetano’s bloated ego, described the…
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With the impeachment trial looming, wresting control of the Senate is crucial to ensure the removal of Vice President Sara Duterte, which is step 1 of a grand…
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When leaders govern without moral frameworks, without accountability, without even the basic decency of shame, they do not simply steal money. They steal…
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The title is borrowed from a 1957 Hollywood movie best remembered for tense confrontations, simmering rivalries, loyalty and betrayal, escalating paranoia, and…
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‘Because their problem is that the impeachment will likely lose in the Senate, and VP Sara could still win in 2028. That’s why the discussion is to move ahead…
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A republic is not governed in theory alone. In our part of the world, imagine it as a balangay: a vessel crossing uncertain waters where every pair of hands…
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If we were Bato, we would ask a very simple, very unfair question, ‘President Alan, why was I safer before you helped me?’
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The House of Representatives has voted to approve, on second reading this Wednesday, 20 May, a version of the Anti-Political Dynasty Bill that prohibits…
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In journalism’s brutal, day-to-day reactions to events, the morbidities and monstrosities of our politics did make their ghostly, fleeting appearances last…
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Serapio’s paper offers several interlocking explanations, starting with power being returned to the same corrupt institutions.
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Ramallah (AFP) — The son of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on Monday said Fatah would prioritize Gaza and return it “to the fold of Palestinian…
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Foreign investors watching from Singapore, Tokyo, and Brussels do not parse the internal logic of Philippine factional politics. They see institutional…
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The danger is that the country becomes trapped in a cycle where politics consumes the national attention while governance and economic confidence suffer.
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — The mother of Venezuelan political prisoner Victor Hugo Quero Navas died Sunday at age 81, just days after confirming the death of…
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