Lowdown by Jojo Robles
Noynoy’s barricade
For once, I miss Cory Aquino. Because Cory really went out of her way not to show in public the...
The Thomasian Way
Over at UST, they will virtually lynch you for having the “wrong” politics. But they will turn a blind eye,...
Not forgotten
On the corner of Edsa and White Plains Avenue in Quezon City, dozens of Philippine flags stand at attention in...
Leni in the dark
I’m trying very hard to understand where Vice President Leni Robredo is coming from when she made one of her...
Real basic change
Whichever way the 1987 Constitution is revised, as long as it removes all the outdated and ill-conceived provisions that have...
An alternative theory
I’ve been going over the theories raised by online-only news outlet Rappler, spread mostly by the local and international media,...
RIP, Rappler
Unfortunately, I cannot agree with colleagues of mine who say that press freedom is under attack because the Securities and...
Unspokesmanlike speculation
I’m told that lawyers, when they appear in court, aren’t allowed to speculate like, say, newspaper columnists. They’re supposed to...
Bongbong gets going
I’ll make it so simple that even a Yellow can understand it: If Leni Robredo won as vice president in...
Cart before horse
Maybe it’s just me, but all this talk about “term extensions” and “no elections” is just way premature. And a...
Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.