My research, as a social scientist on the subject of human well-being and the quality of life, has been highly involved with ...

During a recent trip to the Philippines we had an interesting conversation about artificial intelligence during lunch with family. The generational divide was ably represented: Boomer, Gen X, ...

The night the river rose, the emergency room became a waiting room for the country’s failures. Children arrived shivering, their shirts sour with canal water. A pregnant woman clutched a bag of ...

Philippine education is in trouble, and we do not need another international ranking to confirm it. Anyone who has stepped ...

Two colossal exposés were detonated like nuclear bombs in our country’s political field in the past few days. They were ...

The Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) held its second rally for the year, a supposed three-day “Rally for Transparency and a Better ...

The Magna Carta, Latin for “Great Charter” is a foundational document for democracy, in that it forced tyrannical kings—beginning with King John 1 in year 1215 AD—to submit to the rule of law, ...

As executive secretary in the Marcos administration, Lucas Bersamin was primus inter pares in the Cabinet, given the mandate of his office — ”to directly assist the President in the management of ...

Disasters often expose the cracks in the system, and those in our mental health system have been obvious. The availability of mental health services cannot keep up with the increasing demand for these ...

More than a decade ago, my electrical engineering class of 2011 at the Technological University of the Philippines Taguig had our plant visit to Cebu as part of the curriculum. I still remember how ...

In what could be a portent of things to come this year, President Marcos vetoed P194 billion worth of projects in the General ...

Sustainability”—an ideal industries were once urged to earnestly aspire for—has in recent years been co-opted as a market strategy to entice “green-minded” clients and deflect scrutiny into ...