This was written before the seemingly scripted fracas that erupted on Wednesday at the Senate where gunshots rang out.) It was straight out of a “Tom and Jerry” cartoon flick, showing Sen. Ronald ...

I have spent almost two decades in the Philippine energy sector—as an engineer, lawyer, executive, chair of the National Renewable Energy Board (NREB), and now senior policy adviser to Institute for ...

Filipinos have endured the communist insurgency for more than five decades. The Communist Party of the Philippines–New People’s Army–National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF), once a formidable ...

We love a good villain. Janet Lim Napoles, the “pork barrel queen,” made for great television. The latest Senate report on the flood control scandal searched for a mastermind. Finding none, some ...

Grief. Bereavement. Tunneling. Grief is rarely a linear journey. Human suffering suggests a predictable path, a sequential ...

If historians of the future take current social media posts as the primary sources that represent our times, Monday, May 11, 2026, will go down in history for a mix of the comic and the tragic. From ...

Scripted or not, the chaos at the Senate Wednesday night begs thorough investigation and should exact accountability where it lies. Was it staged to generate sympathy for besieged Sen. Ronald ...

When the gavel banged down at the House of Representatives late Monday afternoon, the final count was historic: 257 yes ...

For scoundrels and scalawags, all roads lead to the Senate as a safe haven. First, there are the incumbent senators who are ...

The scenes played out like a movie: a chase up the stairwell, finger-pointing and shouting in the Senate plenary, and ...

The old order is dead. We just don’t know what will replace it. As Henry Kissinger reminded us in his 2014 book “World Order,” “no truly global ‘order’ has ever existed.” After United ...

We’re in the middle of a fundamental shift in how we access energy, a rapid transition driven by the changing structural ...