Lavish spending
The reckless spending of Christmas bonuses and year-end incentives has become a predictable ritual that benefits businesses far more than the people who earn them. What should be a rare chance to build security...
Double losses
The diversion of billions of pesos from PhilHealth under the BBM administration, now stranded amid the flood control projects scandal, is a grave abuse of public funds. It directly harmed health insurance members while...
Politicized justice
The country is currently facing a clear case of selective justice, where laws are turned into weapons against political rivals while allies who have plundered not just millions but multi-billion up to trillion pesos...
Politics at a glance
Ideally, politics should yield competent leaders that people can choose from during elections. But in our country, politics has decayed into a dirty arena where competence is displaced by manipulation and deceit, depriving the...
Illusion of reconciliation
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s recent pronouncements calling for political reconciliation with the Duterte camp were delivered with the calm, measured tone of a statesman. But tone is not substance, and gestures are not...
Urgent task
The President’s plea for the Senate to fast-track the 2026 national budget exposes the precarious situation created by delays in Congress. Reenacting the 2025 budget is clearly untenable, and the call for urgency deserves...