President Marcos’ 2025 State of the Nation Address (Sona) clearly signaled that education is a national priority. Nearly 20 percent of the speech was dedicated to the sector—a notable shift from ...

Mahiya naman kayo,” President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said several times during his State of the Nation Address (Sona) on July 28. Only a few days before, a succession of typhoons and “habagat” had ...

I believe the Fifth Republic fell in 2016. This fall, in turn, could be dated to 2006; and while the republic as it was ...

Last week, as is customary with many academic offices, our department had a general assembly to bring together faculty and staff in preparation for a new academic year. Our agenda moved from ...

There’s a peculiar silence that visits me sometimes—uninvited, unsettling, yet familiar. It arrives in the quiet after the day has dimmed, when laughter has faded and the world retreats into its ...

Two Sundays ago, Gen. Nicolas Torre III taught Filipinos a crash course on “How to Deal with Bullies 101.” Too bad his ...

When Bam Aquino and Kiko Pangilinan surged into the winning circle of the 2025 senatorial elections—defying polling trends ...

As has been talked about in both social and mainstream media, President Marcos delivered a “different” State of the Nation ...

A few years back, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, I found myself confronting an "existential” crisis. Not too different from my favorite philosophers, Socrates and Søren Kierkegaard, ...