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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...

Duterte Elite Clique Being Decimated one by one

Key figures of the Duterte group are slowly being picked off one by one. This is happening while their hero, Vice President Sara Duterte,...

Sen. Padilla: VP Sara May Have Donated MIllions of Intel Funds to the CPP-NPA?

In his questioning of the prosecution witness, Senator Judge Robin Padilla asked the auditor whether he knew that most of the fantabulous amounts requested...

The Politics Of Attrition in the Sara Duterte Impeachment

The most consequential political trials are rarely won by a single explosive revelation. They are won through accumulation. That appears to be the strategy unfolding...