If elected officials with exact surname are banned (up to 2nd degree of affinity and/or consanguinity), an estimate of 5,763 elected seats out of 17,887 or 32% of seats would be freed. This data is ...

A bird doesn’t even have to sing loudly anymore. It just has to perch in the wrong place, tilt its head a certain way, or make the faintest chirp—and suddenly it’s marked. Not for what it ...

A brief but perceptible hush descended on so-called DDS circles during last week’s House impeachment proceedings against Vice ...

Three years ago, my wife Leni passed from this world. Since then, I have continued living more deliberately while drawing strength from my children and the people around me. Just when none of us ...

It was in early November 2025, when Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Remulla disclosed that the former Senate President Francis “Chiz” ...

An 80-year-old woman speaks with her son for a few minutes each day through video calls. She has not seen him in some time, ...

Our idea of the future used to be simple. Things happen as they will, and we can only hope and pray that life will be the same, if not better. Today, in the modern world, we are told that we can do ...

Parts of Metro Manila have been blanketed in gray skies for two weeks now, not because of some weather phenomenon but due to a nonoperational landfill in Navotas that has been burning since April ...

This week, Israel marked its 78th Independence Day, and for me, it will be the first time observing it in Manila. As I write, it is the eve of Israel’s Memorial Day. In Israel, it begins with a ...

Education is often described as a finish line, a diploma, a title, a career. But for me, it has never felt like a destination ...

In this day and age of crisis, I hastened to read the article “Living through a crisis,” (Safe Space, 4/16/26) by Anna Cristina Tuazon, and it was a riveting read, I must say. The article is ...

The results of the University of the Philippines College Admission Test (Upcat) are out. It isn’t just students who were ...