My dad, ever the brilliant man that he is, asked me these questions in connection with the Christmas celebration. And if they are his questions,...

If there is anything that most would want farthest removed from Christmas, it would be politics.  Christmas is not time to wear one’s political stripes,...

It’s beginning not to feel like Christmas…and there was no typo there. That is exactly how it feels to a significantly increasing number of people. ...

Martial law is abnormal.  If all things were as they ought to be, there would be no need to declare martial law. That is exactly...

It was a recent post of my esteemed colleague, Professor Clarita Carlos, that got me working on this piece.  As always she posed an intellectually...

Talk impeachment, and immediately, all reference is to Article XI of the Constitution on the accountability of public officers —and of course, the provisions on...

Soc Villegas—the name evokes many images: the young priest assisting his feeble but strong-willed archbishop, Jaime Cardinal Sin, the young bishop who was called to...

In more ways than one, higher education in the Philippines is like a patient whose grotesque and misshapen features bespeak of the botched ministrations of...

Until last week, it has never occurred to me that anyone would take umbrage at not being interviewed and begrudge another who was interviewed instead....

The many nursing schools in the Philippines churned out a humongous lot resulting in a glut and soon, job opportunities abroad dried up.  It was...