Today, June 8, the gates of public schools will open for an estimated 26 to 28 million students. They will return to their ...

The Academic Recovery and Accessible Learning Program, or Aral, of the Department of Education (DepEd) is a worthwhile and ...

Both the House of Representatives and the Senate adjourned sine die on June 3, ending the first regular session of the 20th ...

Can I be the elevator girl?” I was on my way up to the clinic when a little girl asked this of her dad. Wanting to dispel the ...

The Philippines has served multiple times as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), most recently from 2004 to 2005. In June 2026, it again sought a seat—but ...

We cannot view this utterly humiliating event, which we justly deserve, separately from the prevailing global reality. Not voting for the Philippines is a big slap in the face of the Americans, and ...

The defining milestones of a person’s life—from birth to marriage to death—are officially recorded by the Office of the Local Civil Registrar (LCR) in cities and municipalities. Then, these ...

The Philippines is now within reach of a Freedom of Information (FOI) law, a measure that has languished in Congress for ...

The story is told about a priest who accompanied a convict to the electric chair. What was he to say to console a man about ...

The pundits are having a heyday about the current goings-on in the Senate. But the people’s opinions about it—or about ...

My childhood playground was the public market of Pavia, Iloilo. It had no swings or slides, only bulanteros’ (ambulant ...

All the moves at the Senate these past two weeks by the political figures identified with the Dutertes are designed to thwart one thing: the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte. This is ...