Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
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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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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In an ideal system, committees reflect expertise. Instead, they function as rewards, protection, and power distribution.
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Acting like paragons of virtue and models of politics, the members of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines were not of any help, but even sowed…
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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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De Leon is meant to be the DBM’s clean break from the P1-trillion ‘Floodgate’ mess, a fresh face to bury an ugly chapter.
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Manases Carpio, the husband of Vice President Sara Duterte-Carpio, has filed a criminal perjury complaint against former Senator Antonio F. Trillanes IV over…
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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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New Senate Blue Ribbon Committee chair, Sen. Pia Cayetano, on Wednesday broke down in tears after a manifestation by minority Sen. Risa Hontiveros who said…
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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. should fire Executive Secretary Ralph Recto and Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa for “dereliction of duty” in the financing of…
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A wave of nostalgia washes over me, of cherished memories associated with rain. Each drop seems to whisper tales of laughter and warmth, transporting me back…
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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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A pivotal moment was the 2019 General Appropriations Act standoff over P95 billion in insertions, which led to the budget’s reenactment. Monsod said it was…
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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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ACT Teachers Partylist Rep. Antonio Tinio has asked the Office of the Ombudsman to investigate alleged irregularities involving P4.4 billion worth of flood…
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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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