So much has been written about happiness: how to be happy, how to measure happiness (including a Gross National Happiness ranking). With the 250th anniversary of the United States’ Declaration of ...

At the onset of investigations into the trillion-peso flood control scam last year, it was hard to believe that the brazen ...

There are hundreds or even thousands of sporting champions in this country. But only a few win a nation's heart. The unique tennis champion Alex Eala combines grace, modesty, and determination ...

As I noted last week, issues of corruption and other forms of fiscal mismanagement were also observed in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) then. One such blatant irregularity was the ...

In 1998, Joseph “Erap” Estrada entered Malacañang as the “president of the masses,” a movie icon who had turned cinematic ...

Our upgrade to an upper middle-income country (UMIC), announced last week by the World Bank (WB), was met with a mix of ...

Never since the heydays of Manny Pacquiao’s iconic fights in Las Vegas and Carlos Yulo’s surreal Olympic double-gold more recently, have we seen such an upsurge of national pride. Arguably, what ...

The successive news reports of violence, bullying, killings, obscenity, and depravity in recent days are deeply saddening. Our schools, which should be among the safest spaces in our lives, now reveal ...

Socrates once stated, “An unexamined life is not worth living.” I believe it is time we pose a challenging follow-up question: What about an unexamined nation? As a Filipino, I have spent much ...

The road to this day has been anything but smooth. But the 1987 Constitution anticipated moments like this. When the nation’s ...

A month ago, our nation grieved over two young athletes whose lives were claimed by the unforgiving waves of Dipaculao, Aurora. In contrast, two weeks ago, our grief took a darker turn, as two young ...