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Acosta’s Admission Releasing 125 million pesos shows how disastrous Vice President Sara Duterte thinks about fidelity of public funds

Was the Public Treasury a Political Piggy Bank? There are moments in an impeachment trial when the issue stops being about accounting procedures and starts...

When Will Energy Secretary Garin Pull the Trigger? An Observation on the Visayas Power Crisis, Accountability and the Nuclear Question

The Visayas crisis has exposed something uncomfortable: we simply do not have enough dependable generating capacity when demand rises, and several plants go offline at the same time. 

Not Justice. Just Bankruptcy: What A Week in Las Pinas and Quezon City Reveals

Picture this. On one side, the entire government — investigators, prosecutors, police, and above all, public funds that never run out. On the other...

2028 Elections: Why Changing Marcos or Sara Duterte Won’t Fix the Philippines

Both the President and the Vice President have shared their thoughts about 2028, with the President assuring us that he will support someone who...

The Philippine Economy Is Cooling. But Who Is Feeling the Cold?

There is a dangerous habit in Philippine economic reporting: We talk about GDP as though it were a thermometer attached to the entire country. GDP...

Wage Order, Potholes and the Price of a Filipino Workers’ Dignity

There is something deeply disturbing about the spectacle now unfolding around the ₱85 NCR wage increase. On one side are millions of workers being told...

The Garbage Trail: Where Does Public Money–and the trash–go”

There is an intriguing question hiding beneath Metro Manila's recurring floods: What happens to the garbage after the garbage truck picks it up? It sounds...

Is Garbage Being Dumped Into our Floodways?

There is something profoundly wrong when a city spends millions trying to prevent flooding while its waterways continue to fill with garbage. And nowhere is...

The Marcos Administration Never Learns: What’s So Anomalous in Bringing Back 107.4 Billion In Flood Control Projects

There are moments in government when the people deserve an explanation. And then there are moments when government itself seems to be asking the people...