Political narra-thieves
State actors and various political interest groups use huge resources peddling narratives which, for the most part, are effective in amplifying pre-existing…
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Political disinformation Philippines
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Delay favors political clans
Elections let people keep the leaders who do their jobs and remove those who do not.
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Dynasty pathogens
Numerous studies show political dynasties, optimizing their power and wealth, are superbugs in our body politic, doing things they are supposedly forbidden to…
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CBCP backs Anti-Political Dynasty Law passage
The CBCP backs an anti-political dynasty law after the Supreme Court directed Congress to enforce the constitutional ban on political dynasties.
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Leonen tags Romualdezes, Dutertes ‘fat’ dynasties
Each year of legislative inaction allows political inequalities, patronage and other problems associated with concentrated political power to persist.
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Dy says Anti-Political Dynasty law House priority
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Carpio threatens SC challenge to dynasty ‘legitimization’ bill
Carpio also said he and other advocates would pursue a people’s initiative to enact what he called a genuine anti-political dynasty law.
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SC orders Congress to enact anti-political dynasty law
The Supreme Court has ordered Congress to enact an anti-political dynasty law, ruling that its 39-year failure to fulfill the constitutional mandate amounted…
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Politics and accountability
At their core, the two high-profile officials share a common thread: both appear to have fallen outside the President’s protective political orbit.
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Whatever verdict, our country pays
A conviction could remove Sara Duterte from office and dramatically reshape the political landscape, but it could also deepen the polarization.
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Political climate
History is filled with instances of former presidents being prosecuted and imprisoned when a hostile successor takes office. This is where the problem and fear…
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Legacy worth fighting for
The President should make this the defining political reform of his administration — and begin with a personal sacrifice.
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Kleptocrats
By accurately pinning down some of our reprehensible political leaders as kleptocrats we’ll be better off. Calling them merely corrupt is too kind and cuddly.
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Quasi news ops mushroom
A growing network of Facebook pages posing as news outlets is raising questions over political influence, online reputation management, and digital…
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Damage control
But Duterte’s camp won’t outright admit these political ploys, much less admit their fear of what the trial will reveal about the Veep’s baggage of…
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Lies, all lies
How political lies became today’s consequential ‘triumphant disaster’ predictably will soon preoccupy our historians and social scientists.
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