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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

To be strict and factual, we commemorate every June 12, the proclamation of independence that took place in 1898, but not independence itself. Independence in terms of belonging to the family of ...

I am sure that some of you have experienced leaving a meeting with a hollow pit in your stomach after learning how other ...