From democracy to kleptocracy
The Senate Hall, the Batasang Pambansa, the Palace by the River Pasig still stand. But the spirit is gone.
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The Senate Hall, the Batasang Pambansa, the Palace by the River Pasig still stand. But the spirit is gone.
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Administration after administration promised reform. Some delivered progress. Many fell short. Corruption survived.
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Marcos had pledged that 37 lawmakers, government officials and contractors would be in jail by Christmas 2025. Christmas came and went, but the scandal did not.
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The Senate can recover its stature if its members choose dialogue over confrontation and loyalty to the institution over allegiance to factions.
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Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso urged young Filipinos on Wednesday to anchor public discourse in evidence and ideas rather than personal attacks,…
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The evil of corruption persists because when the moral majority stay silent, their inaction becomes a structural enabler for this evil to thrive.
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Without accuracy, judgment is impaired. And an impaired judgment leads to intellectual dishonesty and the denial of truth.
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Elon Musk’s xAI has appointed Starlink engineer Jack Garabedian to lead the team responsible for training its Grok chatbot, replacing Diego Pasini, who had…
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The Bureau of Customs (BoC) announced Tuesday that it is speeding up the lawful donation of confiscated and forfeited goods to government agencies and…
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Long silence. The nation is weeping now. Not because Win is Chinese. The most painful part was Risa was the last to know.
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Nosy Tarsee has a riddle for you: A prominent politician from a powerful business family with Chinese roots was born in the Philippines when both his parents…
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Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso appealed to national leaders Monday to set aside political rivalries and find common ground to resolve the…
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How do we explain to other nationalities why our political system is this way, let alone to ourselves, who have long allowed it to happen?
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The whispers have graduated into full-blown chatter, and a recent Metro Manila sighting may have just turned speculation into something harder to dismiss.
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Democracies do not erode only when courts are abolished or Congress is shut down. They also erode when institutions remain intact but are used so selectively…
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SpaceX has set the price of its initial public offering at $135 per share, valuing the aerospace and artificial intelligence company at $1.77 trillion and…
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A former government official has reinvented herself as a fierce government critic — conveniently forgetting that she was once among its biggest beneficiaries.
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SpaceX has set the price of its initial public offering at $135 per share, valuing the aerospace and artificial intelligence company at $1.77 trillion and…
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